Place attachment in natural hazard-prone areas and decision to relocate: Research review and agenda for developing countries

Swapan, Mohammad Shahidul Hasan; Sadeque, Saalem

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101937

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“…Homeownership indicates a substantial economic investment that ties people to their place of residence, and may also indicate place attachment (Haney, 2019). Third, and related to the previous point, place attachment is associated with a lower intention to migrate, which is a commonly held view in the literature (Adams & Kay, 2019;Swapan & Sadeque, 2021). Fourth, two US studies find that black people are more likely to migrate than people of other ethnicities (Paxson & Rouse, 2008;Song & Peng, 2017).…”

Section: Other Factors That Influence Migrationmentioning

confidence: 84%

Anticipating sea‐level rise and human migration: A review of empirical evidence and avenues for future research

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Hagedoorn

et al. 2021

WIREs Climate Change

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Sea‐level rise (SLR) threatens millions of people living in coastal areas through permanent inundation and other SLR‐related hazards. Migration is one way for people to adapt to these coastal changes, but presents an enormous policy challenge given the number of people affected. Knowledge about the relationship between SLR‐related hazards and migration is therefore important to allow for anticipatory policymaking. In recent years, an increasing number of empirical studies have investigated, using survey or census data, how SLR‐related hazards including flooding, salinization, and erosion together with non‐environmental factors influence migration behavior. In this article, we provide a systematic literature review of this empirical work. Our review findings indicate that flooding is not necessarily associated with increased migration. Severe flood events even tend to decrease long‐term migration in developing countries, although more research is needed to better understand the underpinnings of this finding. Salinization and erosion do generally lead to migration, but the number of studies is sparse. Several non‐environmental factors including wealth and place attachment influence migration alongside SLR‐related hazards. Based on the review, we propose a research agenda by outlining knowledge gaps and promising avenues for future research on this topic. Promising research avenues include using behavioral experiments to investigate migration behavior under future SLR scenarios, studying migration among other adaptation strategies, and complementing empirical research with dynamic migration modeling. We conclude that more empirical research on the SLR‐migration nexus is needed to properly understand and anticipate the complex dynamics of migration under SLR, and to design adequate policy responses. This article is categorized under: Climate Economics < Aggregation Techniques for Impacts and Mitigation Costs Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change < Learning from Cases and Analogies Assessing Impacts of Climate Change < Evaluating Future Impacts of Climate Change

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Section: Other Factors That Influence Migrationmentioning

confidence: 84%

Anticipating sea‐level rise and human migration: A review of empirical evidence and avenues for future research

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Hagedoorn

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“…This assumption was supported in India regarding flood preparedness [ 18 ] and in southwest China regarding insurance purchasing intention toward landslides [ 21 ]. Nevertheless, a more substantial place attachment may lead to underestimating potential risks [ 22 , 23 ], or unwillingness to relocate, or a greater likelihood of returning to risky areas after a natural disaster [ 19 , 24 ]. The effect of place attachment on individuals’ risk perceptions and risk coping behaviors can be mediated by variables such as longevity in or the familiarity with a place [ 25 ].…”

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Place Attachment and Household Disaster Preparedness: Examining the Mediation Role of Self-Efficacy

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Liu

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Household preparedness is essential for resilience-building and disaster risk reduction. Limited studies have explored the correlations between place attachment, self-efficacy, and disaster preparedness, especially in the east Asian cultural context. This study investigates the mediating role of self-efficacy between place attachment and disaster preparedness based on data from the 2018 Shandong General Social Survey (N = 2181) in China. We categorized the preparedness behaviors into three specific clusters: material, behavioral and awareness preparedness. Multiple linear regressions and the Sobel Goodman tests were employed to estimate the correlations with the control of necessary confounding variables such as disaster experience, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. The results demonstrate that both the place attachment and self-efficacy are correlated with higher degrees of overall preparedness and all three types of preparedness, and self-efficacy plays a mediating role between place attachment and disaster preparedness. These findings highlight the importance of promoting place attachment and self-efficacy in the advocacies and outreach activities of disaster preparedness.

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“…Li et al [ 53 ] studied the phenomenon of return after the evacuations of Hurricane Katrina and found that the subjects all expressed their strong attachment to New Orleans; this attachment to the place prompted them to decide to return. In the field of disasters, scholars have noticed that residents living in disaster-risk areas are unwilling to evacuate or relocate quickly because of their deep emotional connection with the disaster area [ 54 ]. However, what mechanism does place attachment use to influence individual coping behaviors?…”

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Stay in Risk Area: Place Attachment, Efficacy Beliefs and Risk Coping

Chen

Guo

Deng

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For residents living in earthquake-threatened areas, choosing suitable risk coping behaviors can effectively reduce the loss of family life and property. However, some residents still choose to continue to live within areas at risk of earthquake disaster. Place attachment may play an important role. Based on place attachment theory and the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM), this study explores the possible relationships among place attachment, efficacy beliefs, and evacuation/relocation intention. Furthermore, it examines the mediating role of efficacy beliefs. The study also used the partial least squares method (PLS-SEM) to test samples of 327 rural households in Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake-hit areas. The results show that: (1) Place attachment has a significant effect on response efficacy (RE), but not on self-efficacy (SE); (2) Place dependence (PD) has a negative and significant effect on relocation intention (RI) but has no significant effect on evacuation intention (EI). However, place identity (PI) can indirectly affect EI by influencing RE; (3) Efficacy beliefs have a significant positive effect on EI and RI. These results help us understand the complex relationships among place attachment, efficacy beliefs, and residents’ risk coping behavior, thus providing decision-making references for the formulation and improvement of regional disaster risk management policies.

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Place attachment in natural hazard-prone areas and decision to relocate: Research review and agenda for developing countries

Cited by 36 publications

References 53 publications

Anticipating sea‐level rise and human migration: A review of empirical evidence and avenues for future research

Anticipating sea‐level rise and human migration: A review of empirical evidence and avenues for future research

Place Attachment and Household Disaster Preparedness: Examining the Mediation Role of Self-Efficacy

Stay in Risk Area: Place Attachment, Efficacy Beliefs and Risk Coping

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