Developing a “culture of disaster preparedness”: The citizens’ view

Appleby-Arnold, Sandra; Brockdorff, Noellie; Callus, Celia

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102133

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Socio-cultural contexts lead to varied risk perceptions and consequently, to different ways of preparing for each type of hazard. For example, while Romania and Malta share similar risks, Romanian people tend to base their emergency preparedness on individual collection of information from the authorized bodies; while Maltese people tend to base their preparedness on social activities (26). Cultural contexts such as values, traditions, technological literacy, responsibilities attributed to varied sectors of the population and more, impact on both risk perceptions and emergency preparedness (26,27).…”

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confidence: 99%

Risk Perception of Natural and Human-Made Disasters—Cross Sectional Study in Eight Countries in Europe and Beyond

Bodas

Peleg

Stolero

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Each year, emergency and disaster situations claim a heavy toll in human lives and economic loss. Civilian populations that are more aware and prepared for emergencies are more resilient. The aim of this study was to explore similarities and differences in risk perception of emergencies and disasters across different societies and its association with individual resilience. A cross sectional study that explored attitudinal factors, as expressed by diverse samples of target countries across Europe and beyond, took place during the months of January-February 2021. Diverse samples (N ≥ 500) of adults from 8 countries (Italy, Romania, Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Israel, and Japan) were engaged in this study. This study used the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self-Measure (iPRISM) tool to assess risk perception. The results suggest that for the overall sample (N = 4,013), pandemics were the risk of which participants showed the highest concern, followed by critical infrastructure fail, social disturbance, natural hazards, and extreme weather events. It was found that religiosity is associated with risk perception, with highly religious and non-religious reporting elevated risk perception (F = 5.735, df = 2, p = 0.003), however country-specific analysis revealed that this finding varies depending on local contexts. The analysis also revealed differences in risk perception depending on age and type of risk. The results of this study present that there are commonalities and differences between societies across Europe and beyond concerning societal resilience at large, including risk perception. The dependency of risk perception on local context suggests that a regional-based approach for disaster risk reduction may be called for to adapt and adjust to local socio-cultural characteristics of each population.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Perception of Natural and Human-Made Disasters—Cross Sectional Study in Eight Countries in Europe and Beyond

Bodas

Peleg

Stolero

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Studies have also shown that national risk communication prioritizes the urban population [11], probably because cities are more complex, and their citizens are more dependent on different technical infrastructures. At the same time, the research literature exploring citizens' preparedness often does so in small-scale or rural settings, with an assumption that these populations are easier to activate in a disaster [24], and urban areas are less explored. In this study, two municipalities were selected: one metropolitan area (Stockholm city, the biggest city in Sweden, 1,000,000 citizens) and one large city area (Örebro municipality, the sixth-biggest city in Sweden, 160,000 citizens).…”

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“…A public agency, as well as other regulatory organizations, therefore needs to consider what the public thinks and feels about a risk, irrespective of whether it shares these understandings. A large body of research literature explores the factors that affect the public's perception of risk, as well as the factors affecting their understanding of the authorities handling these risks [24]; however, less scholarly attention has been given to the authorities' perception of citizens and how this may affect their actions [25].…”

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Making Climate Risks Governable in Swedish Municipalities: Crisis Preparedness, Technical Measures, and Public Involvement

Lidskog

Rabe

2022

Climate

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Creating preparedness for climate change has become an increasingly important task for society. In Sweden, the responsibility for crisis preparedness rests to a large extent on the municipalities. Through an interview study of municipal officials, this paper examines municipalities’ crisis preparedness for climate change and the role they assign to citizens. The theoretical approach is that of risk governance, which adopts an inclusive approach to risk management, and that of risk sociology, which states that how a problem is defined determines how it should be handled and by whom. The empirical results show that the municipal officials mainly discuss technically defined risks, such as certain kinds of climate-related extreme events, the handling of which does not require any substantial involvement of citizens. Citizens’ responsibility is only to be individually prepared, and thereby they do not require municipal resources to protect their own properties in the case of an extreme event. The municipalities, however, feel that their citizens have not developed this individual preparedness and therefore they try to better inform them. This analysis finds five different views of citizens, all with their own problems, and to which the municipalities respond with different communicative measures. By way of conclusion, three crucial aspects are raised regarding the task of making societies better prepared for climate change.

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“…Several scientific papers emphasize the need to examine these views. They also emphasize the need to further use the views and thus improve the level of the population preparedness by means of various tools [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. Germany, for instance, is aware of the use of the potential of the population and their views, where the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief under Section 4 of the Civil Protection and Disaster Relief Act has significantly strengthened and developed the social science perspective in civil society protection in recent years.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizens’ Preparedness to Deal with Emergencies as an Important Component of Civil Protection

Kubás

Buganová

Polorecká

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The main purpose of this paper is to point out a new approach in evaluating the preparedness of the population of a selected city for civil protection and its response to emergencies. Using new approaches, it evaluates a subjective questionnaire survey in combination with the objective state thanks to a mathematical approach and its subsequent verification on a specific example. The proposed approaches are then verified by experimental surveys in the selected city. The result is a highly adaptable tool that can be set up and adapted to different situations and different types of questionnaires to address the preparedness and safety of the population for emergencies. Thanks to this tool, it is possible to evaluate the subjective opinions of the population and thus gain insight into the assessment of the city’s preparedness for emergencies. Subsequently, we can set the prevention and preparedness of the population in the city on the basis of the obtained outputs, which potentially has a fundamental influence on the response after the occurrence of an emergency. Improving preparedness in the area of civil protection shall not only be reflected in the response and minimization of the consequences of the emergency, but also in the emotional security of the population.

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Developing a “culture of disaster preparedness”: The citizens’ view

Cited by 36 publications

References 15 publications

Risk Perception of Natural and Human-Made Disasters—Cross Sectional Study in Eight Countries in Europe and Beyond

Risk Perception of Natural and Human-Made Disasters—Cross Sectional Study in Eight Countries in Europe and Beyond

Making Climate Risks Governable in Swedish Municipalities: Crisis Preparedness, Technical Measures, and Public Involvement

Citizens’ Preparedness to Deal with Emergencies as an Important Component of Civil Protection

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