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Theories Of Situational Awareness

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ABSTRACT UNEP and GOK (2000) observe that Kenya has been affected by a series of disasters ranging from terrorism, fire, conflict, drought, floods, landslides, epidemics and human-wild life conflict. The objective of the research was to evaluate the level of drought disaster risk awareness among residents of Mandera County in Kenya. This research relied on the theories of Situational Awareness mainly the three-level model which is applied in the aviation industry. The study used descriptive research design with the target population being household heads and key informants. To achieve the objectives of the study, multi stage random sampling was used to select the various respondents. Out of the 381 household heads who responded, 91% indicated …show more content…

This presents an unfolding of situational awareness as higher-order cognitive processing is performed. The activity theoretic approach presents situational awareness as only one of many components of reflective-orientational activity, as described by Bedny& Meister (1999). The model of the perceptual cycle presents situational awareness as a dynamic Interaction between humans and their environment. Proponents of this approach suggest that it is the context of the interaction that defines the situational awareness (Smith et al. 1995; Adams, et al. …show more content…

The identification of source of knowledge about disaster is clear indication that resident of Mandera County are aware of disasters. Alverez (2006) stated that the enhancement of indigenous knowledge systems in disaster preparedness especially flood risk communication among local communities is one of the surest source of knowledge about disaster. The same findings were also recognized by (UNEP, 2008) on the value of indigenous knowledge in national development and note that, because much of it has not been documented in written form, it stands in danger of being lost as the custodians of the community wisdom, the older generation, passes on. However, (Alvard, 1993) was scepticism surrounding the notion of indigenous knowledge systems in some authors of disaster

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