Risk communication and natural hazard mitigation: how trust influences its effectiveness

Paton, Douglas

doi:10.1504/ijgenvi.2008.017256

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“…Social norms influence attitudes and behaviour (Terry, Hogg, and White 1999;White et al 2009). Attributions of responsibility (who is responsible), and trust are also important mediators that underpin whether actions are taken to adjust to an identified risk (Terry, Hogg, and White 1999;Paton 2008). Modelling with substantive data has been used to illustrate how social cohesion affects the decision to prepare for wildfire by facilitating the transfer of information that can influence the social construction of issues or problems (Eriksen and Prior 2011;Prior and Eriksen 2013).…”

Section: Embodied Riskmentioning

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Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards

Sword-Daniels

Eriksen

Doyle

et al. 2016

Journal of Risk Research

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Section: Embodied Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards

Sword-Daniels

Eriksen

Doyle

et al. 2016

Journal of Risk Research

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“…Trust is a crucial factor underpinning adjustment adoption (Paton, 2008;Paton et al, 2010;Johnston et al, 2003). Levels of trust strongly influence whether people take hazard warnings seriously and how they deal with them.…”

Section: Trustmentioning

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“…A lack of trust in civic risk managers can lead to controversy and divisiveness, thus hampering efforts to enhance individual and social resilience (Slovic, 2000). Trust becomes significant for seismic adjustment where there is little public information about the hazard and the hazard is relatively novel (Paton, 2008). In this situation communities seek a collective articulation of the problems of risk management, alongside an effort to become empowered relative to civic authorities.…”

Section: Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If these goals are achieved levels of trust mediate the impact that risk perception, norms and adjustment attitudes have on intention to adjust: high trust motivates intentions to adjust, low trust will dampen this motivation. Paton's (2008) concept of trust refers to aspersion of competence. Yet trust is also a morally and culturally important emotion, where the attribute being evaluated is moral integrity.…”

Section: Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research shows that such discourses concerning protection efficacy are sometimes highly fatalistic, and that individuals might come to believe that any effort to protect themselves are doomed to fail. Where notions of control, as opposed to fatalism, dominate, most individuals realise that protection from earthquake risks relies on cooperative efforts at local, regional and national levels (Paton, 2008;Paton et al, 2010). This paper deals with these factors in turn.…”

Section: Control Efficacy and Fatementioning

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The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature

Solberg

Rossetto

Joffe

2010

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The majority of people at risk from earthquakes do little or nothing to reduce their vulnerability. Over the past 40 years social scientists have tried to predict and explain levels of seismic hazard adjustment using models from behavioural sciences such as psychology. The present paper is the first to synthesise the major findings from the international literature on psychological correlates and causes of seismic adjustment at the level of the individual and the household. It starts by reviewing research on seismic risk perception. Next, it looks at norms and normative beliefs, focusing particularly on issues of earthquake protection responsibility and trust between risk stakeholders. It then considers research on attitudes towards seismic adjustment attributes, specifically beliefs about efficacy, control and fate. It concludes that an updated model of seismic adjustment must give the issues of norms, trust, power and identity a more prominent role. These have been only sparsely represented in the social psychological literature to date.

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Trusting Government to Mitigate a New Hazard: The Case of Oklahoma Earthquakes

Murphy¹,

Greer²,

Wu³

2018

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This paper examines individual-level perceptions of knowledge levels, responsibility, and trust in the government's ability and willingness to mitigate the newfound earthquake hazard in Oklahoma. These earthquakes have increased in number and intensity since 2010 and are largely believed to be a by-product of wastewater injection wells from oil drilling, making them a new, politically complex hazard for residents to navigate. We conducted household level surveys with two communities in Oklahoma to examine the relationship between (a) an individual's belief that state and local government is knowledgeable about the new earthquake hazard; (b) individual perception that state and local government is responsible for protecting them from the earthquake hazard; and (c) their level of trust in state and local government's ability and willingness to mitigate the hazard. We find that individuals who perceive state and local government as more knowledge about the hazard, or more responsible for protecting them from the hazard, have a higher level of trust in government's ability and willingness to mitigate the earthquake hazard. KEY WORDS: hazard management and mitigation, wastewater injection, trust in government 信任政府对新危害采取缓解措施：以俄克拉荷马州地震为例本文针对俄克拉荷马州新发现的地震危害，检验了个人对政府缓解危害的能力和意愿的认识程度、责任以及信任程度的感知。俄克拉荷马州地震数量自2010年以来持续增长，地震强度不断加大，据说很大程度上这是由于石油钻井后废水注入衍生的副产品，因此地震成为当地居民面临的新危害，且该危害具有政治复杂性。笔者在俄克拉荷马州两个社区内实施了家庭调查，试图检验三个方面之间的关系，这三个方面分别是：1.个人相信国家和地方政府对新地震危害掌握了足够多的知识；2.个人感知国家和地方政府有责任保护他们不受地震危害； 3.个人在多大程度上相信国家和地方政府有能力和意愿去缓解危害。研究结果发现，那些认为国家和地方政府了解危害，且有责任保护他们不受危害的个人，更容易相信政府有能力和意愿缓解地震危害。关键词: 危害管理和缓解措施, 废水注入, 对政府的信任 Confiar en el gobierno para mitigar un nuevo peligro: el caso de los terremotos en Oklahoma

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Risk communication and natural hazard mitigation: how trust influences its effectiveness

Cited by 188 publications

References 20 publications

Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards

Embodied uncertainty: living with complexity and natural hazards

The social psychology of seismic hazard adjustment: re-evaluating the international literature

Trusting Government to Mitigate a New Hazard: The Case of Oklahoma Earthquakes

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