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| Titel |
The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective |
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M. Buchecker, G. Salvini, G. Baldassarre, E. Semenzin, E. Maidl, A. Marcomini |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 13, no. 11 ; Nr. 13, no. 11 (2013-11-27), S.3013-3030 |
| Datensatznummer |
250085567
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-13-3013-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
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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