The role of social norms in climate adaptation: Mediating risk perception and flood insurance purchase

Lo, Acy

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.019

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“…Social stations mean that what homeowners learn from social circles influences their climate change adaptation decisions substantially [36]. This effect shows that the risk perception is socially formed and could affect how people position themselves in their social networks about the concerned climatic issues [14]. In other words, individual perception of natural risks is subject to social influence [37].…”

Section: The Linkages Between Risk Experience Perception and Mitigamentioning

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

Song

Peng

2017

Water

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Abstract:The participation of individuals contributes significantly to the success of sea level rise adaptation. This study therefore addresses what influences people's likelihood of relocating away from low-lying areas in response to rising sea levels. The analysis was based on a survey conducted in the City of Panama Beach in Florida (USA). Survey items relate to people's risk perception, hazard experience, threat appraisal, and coping appraisal, whose theoretical background is Protection Motivation Theory. Descriptive and correlation analysis was first performed to highlight critical factors which were then examined by a multinomial Logit model. Results show that sea level rise awareness is the major explanatory variable. Coping appraisal is qualitatively viewed as a strong predictor for action, while threat appraisal is statistically significant in driving relocation intention. These factors should be integrated in current risk communication regarding sea level rise.

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“…Current research gaps are twofold. First, it remains unclear which factors drive residents' voluntary relocation decisions in anticipation of disastrous flooding [14]. Second, little research has applied Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) into the analysis of sea level rise adaptation.…”

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

Song

Peng

2017

Water

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“…The aim of social adaptation is to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to perturbations from various stressors (Young 2010). Formal and informal institutions that govern human behaviors and shape how individuals and organizations interact are important for shaping climate adaptation (Adger 2000, Lo 2013, Raymond and Robinson 2013, Chen et al 2014. Institutions that are adaptive, flexible, responsive, multilevel, and diverse can promote resilience of social-ecological systems (Adger 2000).…”

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Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of herder communities in northern Tibet

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Li³

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ABSTRACT. The Tibetan grassland social-ecological systems are widely held to be highly vulnerable to climate change. We aim to investigate livelihood adaptation strategies of herder households and the types of local institutions that shaped those adaptation strategies. We examined the barriers and opportunities for strengthening adaptive capacity of local herder communities. We designed and implemented a household survey in the herder communities of northern Tibet. The survey results showed that migratory grazing has become less feasible. Storage, diversification, and market exchange have become the dominant adaptation strategies. The adaptation strategies of local herders have been reshaped by local institutional change. Local governmental and market institutions played the dominant roles in reshaping climate adaptation strategies. Although the present livelihood adaption strategies related to sedentary grazing have improved productivity and profitability of the herding livelihood, they have led to continuous deterioration of pastures. The local grazing system has become more and more dependent on artificial feeding and inputs from outside the grazing system. Purchasing forage has become one of the dominant adaptation strategies of local herder households. Multilevel regression modeling of this adaptation behavior showed that explanatory variables related to climate variability, household capital, and local institutional arrangements had statistically significant relationships with the adoption of this adaptation strategy. The results implies that building household capital and promoting the coordination among local governmental, market, and communal institutions are critical for strengthening adaptive capacity of the Tibetan herder communities.

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“…The thematic cross-disciplinary division with regard to coping and adaptation emerges when their innate characteristics are taken into consideration (Smit and Wandel 2006). In this backdrop, the definitional paradigm of the coping response becomes complicated when societal components and risk perception are introduced in the said paradigm (Schmidtlein et al 2008;Lo 2013). Different knowledge fields have come up with divergent definitions of coping, but it is commonly understood as a temporary survival strategy that is adopted in a given context of responding to climate variability and extremes (Dercon 2002;Pelling 2011).…”

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Can Strategies to Cope with Hazard Shocks be Explained by At-Risk Households’ Socioeconomic Asset Profile? Evidence from Tropical Cyclone-Prone Coastal Bangladesh

Ahsan

2017

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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This article documents the results of an empirical investigation on the complex interplay between diverse coping mechanisms and the socioeconomic asset profiles of coastal households at risk. Focusing on household-level perceptions and responses to cyclone hazards, a case study was carried out in a poor area in Bangladesh that is prone to natural hazards. We developed and tested our own analytical models based on the asset approach. We conducted a face-to-face household survey in southwestern coastal Bangladesh, in the Koyra sub-district, in late 2009. We asked 360 households affected by the May 2009 tropical Cyclone Aila about their hazard perceptions, preparedness, coping practices, and socioeconomic assets. The results suggest that the majority of households at risk perceive an increasing trend of different climate hazards, with a distinct dominance of tropical cyclones, storm surges, and flash floods in the study area, which resulted in a yearly average economic damage of USD 144 for each household in the first year after Aila. However, such damage is significantly and inversely correlated with the number of adopted coping practices. Significant and systematic differences exist between upstream and downstream households in the study area with respect to hazard perception, hazard induced damages, asset accessibility, and adopted diversified coping practices. The empirical findings suggest that the degree of adoption of coping practices depends primarily on elements of socioeconomic asset profile and the duration of the consequences of cyclone hazards. Disaster preparedness training seems to improve at-risk households' degree of information access and eventually leads them to adopt more coping practices to reduce adverse impacts of climate hazards. Area-specific practical modules on coping practices should be incorporated in curricula of disaster preparedness training to make people at risk more resilient to hazard shocks.

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The role of social norms in climate adaptation: Mediating risk perception and flood insurance purchase

Cited by 212 publications

References 36 publications

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

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

Climate adaptation, institutional change, and sustainable livelihoods of herder communities in northern Tibet

Can Strategies to Cope with Hazard Shocks be Explained by At-Risk Households’ Socioeconomic Asset Profile? Evidence from Tropical Cyclone-Prone Coastal Bangladesh

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