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ensure accuracy. Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding
Human Dimensions of the research on the knowledge utilization
process in this field and the relevant literature on
dissemination and utilization that has been produced by social
scientists outside the field. This is followed by a discussion
of several examples of knowledge diffusion and utilization
efforts in hazards and disaster research that are at least
anecdotally known to have experienced some degree of success.
For analytical purposes, a simple matrix is used to categorize
these efforts according to principles derived from the extant
research utilization literature. The chapter concludes with a
discussion on research needed to enhance future utilization in
the hazards and disaster field. As previously noted, social
science hazards and disaster research emerged wit