Perceived Risk, Stigma, and Potential Economic Impacts of a High‐Level Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada

Slovic, Paul; Layman, Mark; Kraus, Nancy; Flynn, James; Chalmers, James A.; Gesell, Gail

doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.1991.tb00658.x

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“…The affective values of these negative images predict the negative attitudes and behaviors related to nuclear power. Slovic et al [42] highlighted that stigmatized nuclear images associated with Las Vegas and the State of Nevada might have adverse economic effects. Moreover, based on survey data, Peter and Slovic [43] demonstrated that affect based on a negative image is a significant factor in perceived risk.…”

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Kim

2017

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Rumors about nuclear power energy and its risks in terms of technology are common. However, these rumors are sometimes exaggerated and not true. Our research question is what factors and variables have influence the rumors related to the Fukushima nuclear accident. We analyzed data collected through social survey (n = 1572). To measure the dependent variable, we asked respondents whether rumors related to the Fukushima nuclear accident were true or false, and the degree to which they trusted such rumors. We measured three factors in determining belief in rumors: psychometric paradigm, communication, and risk perception. We then analyzed the direct impact of these three factors on belief in rumors and the indirect moderating effect of perceived risk of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the relationship between psychometric factors and belief in rumors. Results show that in the communication factors, source credibility decreases belief in rumors whereas usefulness of information and receiver's ability increase it. All the psychometric variables have significant impacts on belief in rumors. Perceived benefit, trust, and knowledge decrease belief in rumors, and perceived risk and stigma increase it. Finally, the perceived risk of Fukushima accident plays a role of moderators between psychometric paradigm and belief in rumors.

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Section: Psychometric Paradigmmentioning

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Kim

2017

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“…Slovic et al [20] provides support for the use of event-driven time periods. In particular, they argue that social amplification of risk is triggered by the occurrence of an adverse event.…”

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Hazardous waste sites and housing appreciation rates

McCluskey

Rausser

2003

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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The dynamic effect of a hazardous waste site is analyzed by investigating the causal relationship between housing appreciation rates and house location in relation to a hazardous waste site using resale data from individual sales transactions in Dallas County, Texas. The results indicate that in the period in which the hazardous waste site was identified and cleanup occurred, residential property owners in close proximity to the hazardous waste site experienced lower housing appreciation rates. In the first postcleanup period, they gained some of the lost ground with a higher appreciation rate. In a subsequent post-cleanup period, their appreciation fell in line with property owners whose properties are located farther away from the hazardous waste site. This suggests that a long-run equilibrium has been reached since appreciation rates were not significantly different across the Dallas housing market in the second post-cleanup period. Although the results indicate that adjustment takes time, an equilibrium is eventually reached for the houses in this repeat sales data set. An important implication of our analysis is that since the post-cleanup recovery was not immediate, property owners should be compensated for their loss of liquidity.Key words: housing appreciation rates, hazardous waste sites.The public's increasing awareness of environmental risks is reflected in the negative impact of environmental contamination on property values in the real estate market.Although the effects of environmental contamination on property values have been studied, the current body of literature on the effects of locally undesirable land uses does not address the adjustment of property values to the discovery and cleanup of environmental contamination. Kiel et al. [9] come the closest to analyzing this issue.They examine the effect of an incinerator siting on housing appreciation rates. However, their study is limited to siting and operation and does not consider any time period after the incinerator has been shut down or removed. In contrast, this paper examines the impact of environmental contamination and cleanup on residential property value appreciation rates by analyzing data from before identification of the hazardous waste site and before, during, and after cleanup has been completed. Consequently, it is possible to empirically investigate the longer-run market adjustment.Stigma is a negative attribute of real estate acquired by the discovery of contamination and reflected in price Elliot-Jones [4].· Using a theoretical model with external economies and adjustment costs, McCluskey [16] shows that both temporary stigma and permanent stigma are possible equilibrium outcomes after discovery and cleanup of a hazardous waste site. If the price adjustment after the cleanup of a hazardous waste site is gradual, as opposed to immediate and permanent, then the cost to the residential property owner cannot be measured immediately after cleanup. 2The duration of stigma has significant legal ramifications. When the cour...

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“…The major empirical work was conducted in the end of the 1980's and published about ten years ago 11 . The theoretical underpinnnings of this work can be found in the Psychometric Model of risk perception 12 , the Theory of Risk Amplification 13 and in the later development of Stigma Theory 14,15 . Very briefly, the received message from this work is that people react emotionally to threats, and that they may do so out of proportion with the real threat.…”

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Risk perception, emotion and policy: the case of nuclear technology

Sjöberg¹

2003

European Review

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This paper addresses the general question of the role of emotions in risk management, with an application to the siting of a repository for spent nuclear fuel. Although it is true that such siting has been very difficult to carry out without meeting with strong local opposition, there are some exceptions in recent Swedish experience. This recent experience constitutes an occasion for reconsidering the received message from risk perception research since the 1970's. This research has purportedly demonstrated a very strong impact of emotional processes on risk attitudes, which in turn is supposed to imply that these attitudes are rigid and unchangeable. However, when this assertion is looked at more closely it is found that a number of questionable assumptions and overly strong generalizations have been made. The central role played by the concept of "dread" is particularly important. Dread, or a "gut reaction", is by no means demonstrated in the traditional selection of hazard attributes, which contain such dimensions as concern for future generations or voluntariness. Such dimensions may have a relationship to emotional processes but they are not emotional per se and their emotional significance remains to be documented. The items that do measure emotional reactions directly, by asking about fear and anxiety, are found in data on nuclear waste repository siting, to have only weak influence on policy attitudes. The most important weight is instead carried by items measuring expected severity of consequences. The argument is, in a concluding section, carried to the level of attitudes to technologies, which may or may not be related to perceived risk. It is found that an important role is played by substitutability of a technology. If people see no good substitute for a technology which has important benefits, they are ready to accept the risks. The current situation in Sweden with regard to nuclear power can be understood in this light, since no realistic alternatives are available.

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Perceived Risk, Stigma, and Potential Economic Impacts of a High‐Level Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada

Cited by 253 publications

References 15 publications

Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Hazardous waste sites and housing appreciation rates

Risk perception, emotion and policy: the case of nuclear technology

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