Influences of place characteristics on hazards, perception and response: a case study of the hazardscape of the Wellington Region, New Zealand

Khan, Shabana; Crozier, Michel; Kennedy, David M.

doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0091-y

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“…Drought exposure is the degree to which agricultural producers are subject to drought, and is partly determined by the biophysical characteristics of the area in which a farmer is located . Farmers observe the biophysical properties within their environment, and thus their drought risk perceptions depend on these attributes . Evidence on the relationship between biophysical features and risk perceptions originates from empirical risk perception studies of floods, hurricanes, and climate change.…”

Section: Determinants Of Farmers’ Risk Perceptionsmentioning

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“…(24) Farmers observe the biophysical properties within their environment, and thus their drought risk perceptions depend on these attributes. (25) Evidence on the relationship between biophysical features and risk perceptions originates from empirical risk perception studies of floods, hurricanes, and climate change. Specifically, flood risk studies show that the distance to a watercourse, the elevation, and the exposed financial value are significant explanatory variables of residents' flood risk perceptions.…”

Section: Drought Risk Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Empirical Analysis of Farmers' Drought Risk Perception: Objective Factors, Personal Circumstances, and Social Influence

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Drought-induced water shortage and salinization are a global threat to agricultural production. With climate change, drought risk is expected to increase as drought events are assumed to occur more frequently and to become more severe. The agricultural sector's adaptive capacity largely depends on farmers' drought risk perceptions. Understanding the formation of farmers' drought risk perceptions is a prerequisite to designing effective and efficient public drought risk management strategies. Various strands of literature point at different factors shaping individual risk perceptions. Economic theory points at objective risk variables, whereas psychology and sociology identify subjective risk variables. This study investigates and compares the contribution of objective and subjective factors in explaining farmers' drought risk perception by means of survey data analysis. Data on risk perceptions, farm characteristics, and various other personality traits were collected from farmers located in the southwest Netherlands. From comparing the explanatory power of objective and subjective risk factors in separate models and a full model of risk perception, it can be concluded that farmers' risk perceptions are shaped by both rational and emotional factors. In a full risk perception model, being located in an area with external water supply, owning fields with salinization issues, cultivating drought-/salt-sensitive crops, farm revenue, drought risk experience, and perceived control are significant explanatory variables of farmers' drought risk perceptions.

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Section: Determinants Of Farmers’ Risk Perceptionsmentioning

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Section: Drought Risk Exposurementioning

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Empirical Analysis of Farmers' Drought Risk Perception: Objective Factors, Personal Circumstances, and Social Influence

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“…The effect of risk communication can be seen clearly on availability heuristics for earthquake awareness and preparedness in New Zealand. Khan et al (2012c) note that due to regular risk communication for earthquake preparedness, a relatively high awareness, and preparedness is recorded for this hazard throughout the Wellington Region despite local variations in the earthquake susceptibility, which was not the case for the other risks. Thus, understanding the general risk communication and heuristics in the society can help to design and modify new risk communication that is informed about the local hazardscape as well as by the latest scientific findings for a better response.…”

Section: Communication and Heuristicmentioning

confidence: 95%

Rethinking communication in risk interpretation and action

Khan¹,

Mishra

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et al. 2017

Nat Hazards

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Communication is fundamental to the transfer of information between individuals, agencies, and organizations, and therefore, it is crucial to planning and decision-making particularly in cases of uncertainty and risk. This paper brings forth some critical aspects of communication that need to be acknowledged and considered while managing risks. Most of the previous studies and theories on natural hazards and disaster management have limited perspective on communication, and hence its implication is limited to awareness, warnings, and emergency response to some selected events. This paper exposes the role of communication as a moderator of not just risk interpretation and action but also various factors responsible for shaping overall response, such as individual decision-making under uncertainty, heuristics, past experiences, learning, trust, complexity, scale and the social context. It suggests that communication is a process that influences decision-making in multiple ways, and therefore it plays a critical role in shaping local responses to various risks. It opens up the scope for using communication beyond its current use as a tool to manage emergency situations. An in-depth understanding of ongoing communication and its implications can help to plan risk management more effectively over time rather than as a short-term response.

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“…location, natural biophysical characteristics and human modified biophysical conditions (Khan et al, 2012). The location (absolute or relative) of a place in the midst of various environmental processes often plays an overriding influence in hazard occurrence.…”

Section: Physical Susceptibilitymentioning

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“…Predictability and controllability of hazards also influence the level of preparedness and response of the local community. Physical susceptibility, on the other hand, not only governs the viability of engineering solutions, but may also influence the perception of hazards and related decision making for response (Khan, 2010;Khan et al, 2012). Mapping spatial variations in the physical and perceived susceptibility could provide an access to identify response gaps over space, and aid planning.…”

Section: Hazardscape and Responsementioning

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Disasters: contributions of hazardscape and gaps in response practices

Khan

2012

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Disasters are frequent, ongoing and very likely to increase in the future with global climate change. Significant investments in hazard mitigation, policies and emergency management have so far failed to stop disasters. Their recurrences suggest that either there are some gaps in the current response or a different perspective is needed on the way hazards have been dealt with to date. This paper views disasters through the lens of hazardscape, which shows the context of both hazard occurrence and response. It finds that one major cause of response failure is inadequate consideration of the local hazardscape in planning. It notes that although globalization of hazard response practices is progressive, it has been less successful in dealing with local variations in vulnerability. This paper presents the conceptual framework of hazardscape, and illustrates various shortcomings of the current responses in relation to the local hazardscapes where they are adopted. It recommends a holistic approach that considers various aspect of the hazardscape in order to plan a response strategy.

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Influences of place characteristics on hazards, perception and response: a case study of the hazardscape of the Wellington Region, New Zealand

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Empirical Analysis of Farmers' Drought Risk Perception: Objective Factors, Personal Circumstances, and Social Influence

Empirical Analysis of Farmers' Drought Risk Perception: Objective Factors, Personal Circumstances, and Social Influence

Rethinking communication in risk interpretation and action

Disasters: contributions of hazardscape and gaps in response practices

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