A hybrid choice modelling approach to estimate the trade-off between perceived environmental risks and economic benefits

How Do Information Resources Influence the Public Environmental Risk Perception? A National Survey in China

“…Thus, we deem the respondent's perceived risk is negative when the measured values are equal to or above 6. Correspondently, we believe that the respondents perceive negative if they score environmental issues at 5 or below in interval [1,10]; thus, their attitude is deemed unsafe.…”

“…Government authorities mostly make decisions respecting to the industrial practice activities, as well as the experts' scientific estimation of risks, while residents' risk judgments are not well understood or considered. Due to the differences over the risk knowledge, exposure and attitudes among residents and government authorities, appropriate risk communications are critical to mitigate residents' anxieties [1].…”

Dynamic simulation for reclaimed water reuse under multi-intervention policies in China

“…We defined perceived risk as the extent to which the public is exposed to health threats when utilizing reclaimed water. Perceived benefit refers to an individual's affirmation of favorable outcomes from the adoption action [ 35 ]. We defined perceived benefit as the extent to which the public perceives the potential advantages of reclaimed water use, such as reducing usage costs.…”

Testing for saliency-led choice behavior in discrete choice modeling: An application in the context of preferences towards nuclear energy in Italy

“…For example, respondents may not in principle be opposed to nuclear energy, provided that the facility is not developed in their local area: this is often referred to as NIMBY effect, associated with free riding (Carley et al, 2020). Ample literature has shown that acceptance of hazardous facilities is actually influenced by many factors, such as trust in institutions (Bronfman and Vázquez 2011;Siegrist et al 2005;Poortinga and Pidgeon 2003), place attachment (Devine-Wright 2011;Van Veelen and Haggett 2017), benefit and risk perception (de Groot et al 2020, Strazzera et al 2022), which cannot be simply interpreted as free-riding; yet, as suggested by Uji et al (2021), these perceptions may trigger a NIMBY attitude, so that in the choice exercises respondents may overly focus on the distance attribute and choose the project option only if this attribute attains a certain level. It may as well happen that other attributes are considered irrelevant, and hence completely ignored in the decision process.…”