Move out or dig in? Risk awareness and mobility plans in disaster‐affected communities

Haney, Timothy J.

doi:10.1111/1468-5973.12253

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“…For a more in-depth description of data and methods, see also Haney (2018aHaney ( , 2018b and Milnes and Haney (2017). Table I includes the descriptive statistics and metrics for all the variables used in the models.…”

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“…This low level of awareness exists as some residents expect flood control measures and other structural mitigation will protect them, or because they do not live in an officially designated flood plain (Ludy & Kondolf, 2012). Many others are unaware simply because they misunderstand the "1in-100-year" calculus as indicating that floods happen only every 100 years (Haney, 2018a;Ludy & Kondolf, 2012). It may also be a result of knowledge biases; those who have more education tend to be less likely to trust the credibility of officials and risk communications and instead defer to their own personal judgment (Parida, 2010;Wachinger et al, 2013).…”

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

2019

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The persistent gap in flood risk awareness in Canada, and elsewhere in North America, is a continual source of worry for researchers and emergency managers; many people living in at‐risk places are simply unaware of risks and of their proximity to hazards. This study seeks to understand which residents were aware of flood risk, using unique representative survey data of Calgary residents living in the city's flood‐prone neighborhoods collected after the devastating and costly 2013 Southern Alberta Flood. The article uses logistic regression models to analyze which residents were aware of risk to their homes. Findings indicate that, in addition to various demographic predictors, many of the geographic predictors (including the elevation of one's home relative to the river) are significant predictors of awareness. Having a direct sight line to one of Calgary's two rivers is also a significant predictor in some of the models, suggesting that the visibility of hazards matters for flood risk perception, although this effect fades when many of the geographic predictors are added. Finally, the models indicate that several variables related to local, neighborhood‐based social networks are significant as well. These findings reveal that both physical surroundings and social context are important for understanding risk awareness. The article concludes by discussing the relevance for social science research on disasters and hazards, as well as for planners and emergency managers.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

2019

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“…For example, reviews on risk perception by Solberg et al () and Wachinger et al () reported that personal experience is an important determinant of risk perception. In terms of empirical evidence, in a recent survey in Calgary on the effects of flood experience, Haney () found that the respondents who had home flood experience were more likely to worry about future floods than those who did not flood. Similarly, Olczyk () and and Liu et al () found that past flood experience heightened the flood awareness of some respondents and farmer’s willingness to pay for a rainfall index insurance, respectively.…”

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Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

Sun

Xue

2020

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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There are thousands of earthquakes every year, but most of them are small and are not disasters. This study explored whether non‐destructive earthquake experience affects public risk perception and motivates preparedness. The study respondents were from the Jiaodong Peninsula, China, where more than 20 small earthquakes have occurred during the past decade. The results show that non‐destructive earthquake experience positively affected public perception of the probability of an earthquake but not the perception of consequences. The relationship between non‐destructive earthquake experience and preparedness intention was not statistically significant. In addition, this study revealed that the perception of consequences was a positive predictor of earthquake preparedness intention, that is people with higher levels of perceived consequences of an earthquake were more likely to be motivated to prepare. However, non‐destructive earthquake experience moderated this relationship, that is weakened the strength of this relationship between perceived consequences and skill preparedness intention. These findings permit the identification of potential pathways to increase levels of disaster preparedness and potential barriers to enhancing disaster resilience in regions experiencing small hazards.

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“…The second section which contains flood experience [32,33], knowledge of flood types et al, aims to assess the flood risk knowledge of respondents. The third section is measured by trust [16] and worry [15,16]. The fourth section focuses on how to evaluate the validity of public protective coping behaviors and consisted of preparation of supplies before a disaster, willingness to collect flood information, understanding of disaster-prevention measures, insurance willingness.…”

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“…The public's emotions and attitudes would strongly influence the action taken to deal with the disaster, because the adoption of behaviors was often based on objective emotional perception [14]. In terms of worrying, worried emotions would promote the public taking preventive measures, according to published studies [15,16]. Besides, trust in flood protection [16,17] was considered a key factor that affected protective coping behaviors.…”

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Affect Path to Flood Protective Coping Behaviors Using SEM Based on a Survey in Shenzhen, China

Huang

Cao

Wang

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The initial concept of flood control has gradually shifted to flood risk management which emphasizes more public participation. Therefore, understanding the public’s protective coping behavioral patterns to floods is significant, and can help improve the effectiveness of public participation and implementation of flood-mitigation measures. However, the quantitative effect of socio-demographic factors on flood risk perception and behaviors is not clear. In this study, the socio-demographic factors are included to explore the quantitative relationship with and the affect path to flood protective coping behaviors with socio-demographic factors are studied. Shenzhen City in China is chosen as the study area, which suffers frequent urban floods every year. Questionnaire surveys are conducted in five flood-prone communities there, and 339 valid questionnaires were collected. The correlations between flood risk perception, flood risk knowledge, flood risk attitude, socio-demographic factors, and protective coping behaviors are analyzed firstly. A structural equation model (SEM) about these factors is then established to verify the correctness of hypothetical paths and discover new paths. The results indicates that socio-demographic factors and flood risk perception do not have impacts on protective coping behaviors directly, but are mediated by flood risk knowledge and flood risk attitude. Flood risk attitude is an important factor that affects protective coping behaviors directly. Moreover, two affect paths to flood protective coping behaviors are proposed. The findings of Shenzhen city in this study can be extended to other cities with similar characteristics, providing support for conducting effective flood mitigation measures.

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Move out or dig in? Risk awareness and mobility plans in disaster‐affected communities

Cited by 26 publications

References 72 publications

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Geographic and Social Predictors of Flood Risk Awareness

Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

Affect Path to Flood Protective Coping Behaviors Using SEM Based on a Survey in Shenzhen, China

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