Risk Perception of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Abstract

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Should We Leave? Attitudes towards Relocation in Response to Sea Level Rise

“…One major contribution of the PMT is its illustration of the linkage between hazard perception and risk reduction behaviors. For example, Frondel et al [26] and Ling et al [27] both confirmed that flood experience was positively correlated with adaptation efforts, while Lawrence et al [28] maintained that the witnessing of major floods among German residents failed to encourage people to take more active mitigation actions. Therefore, attitude or perception may not be a good behavior predictor [29].…”

“…While we hypothesized such a linkage, the direction of effects still deserves investigation. Flood experience could increase people's likelihood to take mitigation measures [26,41,42], there is also evidence that past experience does not contribute to a higher level of intention to take self-protective actions [28,43].…”

Attribution matters: Revisiting the link between extreme weather experience and climate change mitigation responses

“…Logically, extreme weather must be perceived to be connected with climate change to have any relevance in informing climate change perceptions. While exposure to extreme weather may spontaneously update the perceived risk of subsequent adverse weather impacts (Frondel et al, 2017;Siegrist and Gutscher, 2006), more deliberate experience appraisal is required for extreme weather experiences to be interpreted in terms of climate change risk (Hamilton-Webb et al, 2017). In other words, extreme weather does not inherently signify climate change.…”

Analyzing the Determinants of Individual Action on Climate Change by Specifying the Roles of Six Values in South Korea

“…Visschers and Siegrist [17] grouped research on risk into two categories: First, based on the psychometric paradigm, explains variations in perceptions of different risks whereas second examines the factors determining an individual's perception of a risk (i.e., perceived benefits, trust, knowledge, affective association, values, and fairness). Frondel et al [18] reported that the determinants of an individual's risk perception regarding climate change are associated with three kinds of natural hazards: heat waves, storms, and floods.…”