Place, Culture, and the Social Amplification of Risk

Masuda, Jeffrey R.; Garvin, Theresa

doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00749.x

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“…These perceptions are likely to be filtered through values and meanings attached to whatever is under threat and some argue that attachments to a place or locale are likely to be particularly influential (Masuda and Garvin 2006;Venables et al 2012). Such emotional attachments (Tuan 1974) are often characterized as place identity and place dependence.…”

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Awareness, concern and willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours: public perceptions of invasive tree pests and pathogens in the UK

et al. 2017

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The growing incidence of invasive tree pest and disease outbreaks is recognised as an increasing threat to ecosystem services and human wellbeing. Linked to global trade, human movement and climate change, a number of outbreaks have attracted high public and media attention. However, there is surprisingly little evidence characterising the nature of public attentiveness to these events, nor how publics might respond to evolving outbreaks and the management actions taken. This paper presents findings from an online questionnaire involving 1334 respondents nationally-representative of the British public to assess awareness, concern and willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours. Despite revealing low levels of awareness and knowledge, the results indicate that the British public is concerned about the health of trees, forests and woodlands and is moderately willing to adopt biosecure behaviours. A key finding is that membership of environmental organisations and strong place identity are likely to engender higher awareness and levels of concern about tree pests and diseases. Further, those who visit woodlands regularly are likely to be more aware than non-visitors, and gardeners are more likely to be concerned than non-gardeners. Women, older respondents, those with strong place identity and dependence, members of environmental organisations, woodland visitors and gardeners were most likely to express a willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours. A comparison with findings from a survey conducted by the authors 3 years previously shows a decline over time in awareness, concern and willingness.

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confidence: 99%

Awareness, concern and willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours: public perceptions of invasive tree pests and pathogens in the UK

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“…Some are qualitative, analyzing rich verbal accounts among the public from interviews (for example Masuda and Garvin, 2006) and discussion groups (Petts and Niemeyer, 2004;Busby and Duckett, 2012), or analysing media content (Bakir, 2005). These have revealed how the worldview of individuals affects their tendency to amplify risk, and how particular actors use the media to convey their view of the risk and influence opinion.…”

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Agent-based computational modelling of social risk responses

Busby

Onggo

Liu

2016

European Journal of Operational Research

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Please cite this article as: J.S. Busby , B.S.S. Onggo , Y. Liu , Agent-based computational modelling of social risk responses, European Journal of Operational Research (2015Research ( ), doi: 10.1016Research ( /j.ejor.2015 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. One of the main approaches we have for analysing the emergent public response, the social amplification of risk framework, has been the subject of little modelling. The purpose of this paper is to explore how social risk amplification can be represented and simulated. The importance of heterogeneity among risk perceivers, and the role of their social networks in shaping risk perceptions, makes it natural to take an agent-based approach. We look in particular at how to model some central aspects of many risk events: the way actors come to observe other actors more than external events in forming their risk perceptions; the way in which behaviour both follows risk perception and shapes it; and the way risk communications are fashioned in the light of responses to previous communications. We show how such aspects can be represented by availability cascades, but also how this creates further problems of how to represent the contrasting effects of informational and reputational elements, and the differentiation of private and public risk beliefs. Simulation of the resulting model shows how certain qualitative aspects of risk response time series found empirically -such as endogenously-produced peaks in risk concern -can be explained by this model.

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“…Externally introduced risks serve to disrupt these aspects of place-identity, and result in heightened anxiety about risks associated with these changes. Masuda and Garvin (2006) showed that place is an important component in the social 204 C.G. Jardine et al…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies have also shown that knowledge and understanding of risk are strongly associated with culture and different ways of knowing, and that context and situation are critical to understanding how people view and respond to risk (Krimsky and Plough 1988;Satterfield et al 2004). Similarly, responses to risks have been shown to be related to connections to 'place' and 'place-identity' (Wester-Herber 2004;Masuda and Garvin 2006). Both gendered attributes (McDowell 1999) and risk perspectives (Kasperson et al 1988; are acknowledged to be 'socially constructed' in that they are created and developed by society and/or through social and cultural practices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%