Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Simora, Michael; Sommer, Stephan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2866661

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“…In particular, residents in Amami-Oshima showed relatively higher anxieties about Flood, whereas residents in Okinoerabujima showed higher anxiety about Drought. This implies that the differences in the rank about Flood and Drought would be explained by the differences in the amount of both heavy and light rainfall, and the number of typhoons, which support previous findings (Dai et al, 2015;Frondel et al, 2017). Suppose their anxieties are triggered by their experience, their ranking would change drastically.…”

Section: Necessity Of Island-specific Tailored Adaptation Measuressupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Although the number of associated injuries has been very limited, the residents experienced and observed some impacts. Many similar correlations concerning natural hazards have been reported in Europe (Frondel et al, 2017;Keller et al, 2006;Thieken et al, 2007;Weber, 2006). Through this study, we have contributed by adding an Asian example to the literature.…”

Section: Climate Change Communication Based On Stakeholders' Risk Persupporting

confidence: 61%

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Understanding island residents’ anxiety about impacts caused by climate change using Best–Worst Scaling: a case study of Amami islands, Japan

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Climate change poses significant risk to island communities; however, there has been limited quantitative investigation into local people's perception toward the risk. This study applied Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) to understand residents' anxieties about potential incidents caused by climate change in Amami islands, Japan. Through an interview with stakeholders, we selected five potential incidents for our BWS attributes: damage caused by typhoon and heavy rain (Typhoon), damage caused by flood and a landslide (Flood), damage from a drought (Drought), damage from ciguatera fish poisoning (Ciguatera), and incident caused by jellyfish (Jellyfish). Changes in frequencies of the abovementioned incidents have already been observed in Japan. In 2016, we conducted a questionnaire survey of residents in Amami islands and received over 700 valid responses to BWS questions. Results showed that the average respondent was most anxious about the risk of Typhoon, followed by Flood, Drought, Ciguatera, and Jellyfish. Furthermore, a comparative analysis did not find large variations among the islands in the residents' anxiety ranking concerning the incidents, but the degrees of their anxieties were different. The Amami-Oshima residents, for example, had relatively higher anxieties about Flood, whereas the Okinoerabujima residents showed higher anxiety about Drought. These findings support that their risk perceptions are determined by their experience and surrounding environments. Understanding the sensitivity of residents to climate change risk will encourage stakeholders to communicate and enhance climate change adaptation in local communities.

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Section: Necessity Of Island-specific Tailored Adaptation Measuressupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Climate Change Communication Based On Stakeholders' Risk Persupporting

confidence: 61%

Understanding island residents’ anxiety about impacts caused by climate change using Best–Worst Scaling: a case study of Amami islands, Japan

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“…If the respondent suffered from personal damage this effect increases to around 29 percentage points. An explanation for this distinct impact on precautionary behavior might be a higher risk perception of individuals with flood experience as shown by Frondel et al (2017). As expected, respondents in flood-prone areas are more likely to conduct non-financial protection measures.…”

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confidence: 71%

Natural Disasters and Governmental Aid: Is There a Charity Hazard?

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. AbstractIn the aftermath of natural disasters, governments frequently provide financial aid for affected households. This policy can have adverse effects if individuals anticipate it and forgo private precaution measures. While theoretical literature unequivocally suggests this so called "charity hazard", empirical studies yield ambiguous results. Drawing on rich survey data from German homeowners, we analyze charity hazard for different flood precaution strategies and different flood risk areas. Our results indicate a substantial charity hazard in the insurance market for individuals residing in floodprone areas. In contrast, we find a positive correlation between governmental aid and non-financial protection measures. Moreover, our results suggest that insurance and non-financial protection measures are rather complements than substitutes. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that status-quo bias might play an important role for insurance uptake. JEL Classification: Q54, C35, R22

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“…Different from public emergencies, POC generally has clear promoters and media channels, and its evolution process (including appearance, development, climax, decline, and disappearance [27]) is essentially the change process of behavioral relationships between the public (disseminator, recipient, etc.). From the perspective of cognitive psychology, the deep-seated cause for the formation of this change process is the change of RPP [28]. In fact, the change of RPP is synchronized with the change of POC to some extent, because the level of RPP directly determines the intensity of POC, and the intensity of POC directly reflects the level of RPP.…”

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A New Decision Method for Public Opinion Crisis with the Intervention of Risk Perception of the Public

Wang

Zhang

2019

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Decision-making for selecting response plans problem (SRPP) has been widely concerning to scholars. However, most of the existing studies on this problem are focused on public emergencies, and little attention has been paid to the decision-makers’ urgent need for solving the SRPP in response to public opinion crisis (POC) that may lead to panic buying of materials derived from public emergencies. POC has obvious characteristics of group behaviors that directly resulted from panics and psychological appeals of the public. Therefore, for solving the SRPP in POC, it is necessary to consider the deep-seated cause that result in panics and psychological appeals of the public, i.e., risk perception of the public (RPP). Firstly, the multicase study is employed to describe the SRPP of POC, and thus eight typical cases are chosen to analyze POC and its relevant response measures. Then, the RPP is described with prospect theory through considering the behavioral characteristics and critical sense of the public, the response measures of decision-makers, and the importance and ambiguity of POC. Further, considering the behavioral characteristics of decision-makers and the impact of alternative response plans on the evolution of POC scenarios, a new decision method for solving the SRPP with the intervention of the RPP is proposed by using cumulative prospect theory and a manner of comparing alternatives for each other. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the potential application and effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Understanding island residents’ anxiety about impacts caused by climate change using Best–Worst Scaling: a case study of Amami islands, Japan

Understanding island residents’ anxiety about impacts caused by climate change using Best–Worst Scaling: a case study of Amami islands, Japan

Natural Disasters and Governmental Aid: Is There a Charity Hazard?

A New Decision Method for Public Opinion Crisis with the Intervention of Risk Perception of the Public

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