The role of risk perception for risk management

Renn, Ortwin

doi:10.1016/s0951-8320(97)00119-1

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“…3) with the final aim of identifying the optimal risk prevention strategy, increasing the acceptance of the selected prevention measures, and thus making flood risk management more effective. The proposed procedure provides a practical suggestion for risk evaluation (as intended by Renn, 1998) which so far has not been implemented into practice. Moreover, its structure, composed of three steps, allows us to combine the risk assessment process with the evaluation of the process itself, which Höppner et al (2012) point out is hardly ever achieved.…”

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“…6. The importance of developing a procedure to integrate risk perception into risk assessment for an effective and socially accepted risk management application is clearly evident (Renn, 1998;Pidgeon, 1998). The first authors to realize the importance of including the human component in natural hazards research date back to the 1940s (White, 1945).…”

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The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Buchecker

Salvini

Baldassarre

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.Over the last few decades, Europe has suffered from a number of severe flood events and, as a result, there has been a growing interest in probing alternative approaches to managing flood risk via prevention measures. A literature review reveals that, although in the last decades risk evaluation has been recognized as key element of risk management, and risk assessment methodologies (including risk analysis and evaluation) have been improved by including social, economic, cultural, historical and political conditions, the theoretical schemes are not yet applied in practice. One main reason for this shortcoming is that risk perception literature is mainly of universal and theoretical nature and cannot provide the necessary details to implement a comprehensive risk evaluation. This paper therefore aims to explore a procedure that allows the inclusion of stakeholders' perceptions of prevention measures in risk assessment. It proposes to adopt methods of risk communication (both one-way and two-way communication) in risk assessment with the final aim of making flood risk management more effective. The proposed procedure not only focuses on the effect of discursive risk communication on risk perception, and on achieving a shared assessment of the prevention alternatives, but also considers the effects of the communication process on perceived uncertainties, accepted risk levels, and trust in the managing institutions.The effectiveness of this combined procedure has been studied and illustrated using the example of the participatory flood prevention assessment process on the Sihl River in Zurich, Switzerland. The main findings of the case study suggest that the proposed procedure performed well, but that it needs some adaptations for it to be applicable in different contexts and to allow a (semi-) quantitative estimation of risk perception to be used as an indicator of adaptive capacity.

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Section: Conclusion and Further Developmentsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Buchecker

Salvini

Baldassarre

et al. 2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…To reduce the social amplification of risk, it is important for laypersons that experts address risks and contextualize them in relations to other risks. Research on risk perception has pointed out that public opinion is steered by media reports scandalizing or exaggerating minor risks, leading to the spending of money to reduce them, while other major risks that failed to attract public attention are insufficiently considered [56,57]. Risk managers should be sensitive to this and not become misguided by media and public concerns.…”

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Understanding the Risks of Microplastics: A Social-Ecological Risk Perspective

Kramm

Völker

2017

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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“…For instance, the inner correlation or clustering between risk events generally got lost in a risk register. A warning was set against the dangers of one-sidedly using risk registers and related practices in containing management risk [11]. As a result, varied risk register improvements occurred in the risk management.…”

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Managing Transportation Megaproject Schedule Risks Using Structural Equation Modelling: A Case Study of Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub in China

Peng

Liangfa

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Tight schedules, multifunctional scopes, and colossal sizes usually characterize transportation megaprojects as challenging tasks for completion. In order to address these situations, a schedule risk management method was developed in this paper based on the structural equation model. In the proposed method, risk identification, evaluation and response were arranged as a sequence, and the expert elicitation technique was adopted in order to quantify the schedule risk status. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model, a megaproject case in China, the Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub (SHITH), was chosen. Information within the expanded risk register was collected including the probability and consequence of risk events, the complexity of risk responsible owners, the reaction time, and the time lasting for risk countermeasures. Final risk control results showed that the method could not only address the schedule risks correlations effectively, but also maintained the simplicity for construction management practices..

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The role of risk perception for risk management

Cited by 232 publications

References 42 publications

The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective

Understanding the Risks of Microplastics: A Social-Ecological Risk Perspective

Managing Transportation Megaproject Schedule Risks Using Structural Equation Modelling: A Case Study of Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub in China

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