Public Perception of Physical Risks: Effect of the Experience of Repeated Explosion  Accidents at a Chemical Plant

Koshiba, Yusuke; Ohtani, Hideo

doi:10.4236/ojsst.2015.52006

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“…In line with previous findings on acute risk experience (e.g., Bronfman et al, 2020;Keller et al, 2006; Knuth et al, 2015;Koshiba & Ohtani, 2015;Kung & Chen, 2012;Lindell & Hwang, 2008;Öhman, 2017;, participants with personal experiences of terrorism reported increased personal and general risk perceptions (hypotheses 1 & 2). This was expected, since acute disaster risks typically affect the self and others at the same time, and thus provide information about both one's own and others' risk status (Weinstein, 1989).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…A positive experience-risk perception relationship was also found in other studies which examined natural events such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes (Bronfman, Cisternas, Repetto, Castañeda, & Guic, 2020;Keller, Siegrist, & Gutscher, 2006;Kung & Chen, 2012;Lindell & Hwang, 2008) and man-made disasters such as fires, explosions, traffic accidents, and terrorist attacks (Knuth et al, 2015;Koshiba & Ohtani, 2015), with small to large effect sizes ranging between d's = 0.26-1.44. Only a relatively small number of studies found either mixed, none, or even reversed experience-risk perception relationships (Halpern-Felsher et al, 2001;Shiloh, Güvenç, & Önkal, 2007;Viscusi & Zeckhauser, 2006).…”

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The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

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The present study examined the relationship between risk experience and risk perceptions in relation to the target (risk to the self vs. others) and for two different types of risk: acute risks (i.e., terrorist attacks) and cumulative health risks (i.e., alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption, and unhealthy eating) in two countries (Israel and Germany). An online survey (N = 571) was conducted to assess participants’ previous personal experience with acute and cumulative risks and their personal and general risk perceptions. The results showed that personal experience with terrorism was related to increased personal and general risk perceptions, while personal experience with cumulative health risks was related to increased personal but not general risk perceptions. It is argued that an increase in risk perception with more risk experience can be explained by the amount of available information about people's personal as well as other people's risk status. The findings emphasize that the experience–risk perception relationship depends on the target of the risk and the type of risk experience.

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The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

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“…The reason for this can be called the emotional neutrality of demographic aging for the population (lack of fear, anger) and, more importantly, the lack of experience with the consequences of such threats. As it is known, direct confrontation with the negative consequences of risk increases its individual significance (Koshiba & Ohtani, 2015).…”

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Restriction of the Rights of Citizens to Achieve the Economic Security of the Territory

Gubinova

2020

Rev. Elect. Invest. Ciencias Econ.

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Restriction of the rights of citizens is one of the tools to achieve national security of the territory. This work is aimed at analyzing the readiness of citizens to limit their rights to ensure economic security and taking into account this readiness by the authorities. As an object, the right to receive insurance old-age pension in the Russian Federation was chosen. The choice of this right is due to the demographic aging of the population in all macro-regions of the world and the almost universal increase in the retirement age. The main sources of data were statistical databases of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation, as well as the results of sociological surveys conducted by public opinion centers and the Institute of Economics of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Data analysis was carried out using the case study method and econometric methods, in particular, panel and correlation analysis. The study showed that the willingness of a significant proportion of Russians to limit civil rights does not extend to the right to receive an old-age insurance pension. At the same time, the authorities poorly took into account the unreadiness of citizens to raise the retirement age. At the same time, the advantages and disadvantages of limiting the right to insurance old-age pensions make the formation of a “smart security” model for the territory, which involves a combination of soft and hard forces, topical.

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“…Thus, we applied Hayashi's quantification method type II (hereafter referred to as quantification method II). This method is a linear discriminant analysis for categorical data, which enables the analysis of the quantitative relationship between an objective variable and an explanatory variable by regarding a categorical variable as a dummy variable (Hayashi 1952;Koshiba and Ohtani 2015). By using this quantification method, the environment of the distribution area of sapric and non-sapric peat soils were discriminated quantitatively using qualitative category data.…”

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Controlling factors for the distribution of sapric peat soils extracted by GIS analysis

Morishita

Kawahigashi

2018

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

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This study aimed to clarify the distribution trend of sapric peat soils in Japanese agricultural fields from the view point of drainage and landform conditions using the Geographic Information System (GIS). To this end, the environmental conditions in the distribution area of organic soils were divided by combining existing GIS databases of environmental factors that consist of groundwater level, drainage condition, landform classification, and grain size of sediment. In order to evaluate the contribution of these environmental factors to the distribution trend of sapric peat soils, we applied quantification method type II to construct the discrimination model that enables the differentiation of the distribution area of sapric and non-sapric peat soils. In the case of organic soils without mineral surface cover, our discrimination model clearly suggests that sapric peat soils tend to be distributed under good drainage condition on floodplains, and with coarse sediments. This indicates that the effect of drainage conditions on peat decomposition is determined by landform condition. On the other hand, in the case of the land covered with mineral soils on the surface, sapric peat soil distribution was not well estimated. Determining the relationships between the distribution trend of sapric peat soils and the environmental factors by analyzing the existing GIS database is a new application. This was achieved by the combination of GIS and quantification method type II, which contributes to the description of the peat decomposition process from the viewpoint of geographical conditions.

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Public Perception of Physical Risks: Effect of the Experience of Repeated Explosion Accidents at a Chemical Plant

Cited by 5 publications

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The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

The Role of Personal Risk Experience—An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel

Restriction of the Rights of Citizens to Achieve the Economic Security of the Territory

Controlling factors for the distribution of sapric peat soils extracted by GIS analysis

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