Public perception of typhoon signals and response in Macau: did disaster response improve between the 2017 Hato and 2018 Mangkhut typhoons?

In two successive years, 2017 and 2018, Macau suffered tremendously from strong typhoons, Hato and Mangkhut, respectively. Following Hato in 2017, a top officer who served as the observatory’s director, resigned amid public complaints over the late issuance of a higher warning signal during the typhoon. In light of this general disappointment in Macau’s disaster preparation and response procedures, we conducted an interview survey in downtown...