Risk perception, trust and public engagement in nuclear decision-making in Hong Kong

Mah, Daphne Ngar‐yin; Hills, Peter; Tao, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.05.019

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“…Specifically, the farmers' lack of trust in middlemen's provision of equal treatment, competence in helping others, moral integrity, care, and humble attitude likely led to perceptions of great risks (Table 5). This result is consistent with those of previous research on the relationship between risk perception and trustworthiness in a nuclear power plant [23]. This result of this study also consistent with result of study on public acceptance of recycled water, which indicated that higher trust associated with lower perception of risk [65].…”

Section: Factors Affecting Risk Perceptionsupporting

confidence: 83%

“…In the risk communication literature, trust is regarded as a critical factor for mitigating risk perception and encouraging risk acceptance [21,22]. It has been studied in relation to various risk perception issues, including those related to climate change, radioactive waste, genetically modified food, and nuclear power plants [22,23]. Similarly, risk perception has been accorded a prominent place in the extant literature on trust [20,[24][25][26].…”

Section: Trust and Risk Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To help the respondents understand trustrelated concepts, we provided a set of seven attributes that embody the three dimensions of distrust and provided indicators for each attribute. These key dimensional attributes and indicators of trust (Table 3) were referenced from Mishra [61], Braithwaite [62], Denhardt [18], Poortinga and Pidgeon [22], and Mah et al [23] and were adopted in the field survey. To determine what aspects the respondents trust and distrust, they were asked about their views on farmers who supply straw to the biomass power plant.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Influence of Trust on Biomass Supply Decision-Making in China

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Given the abundant straw resources in Northeast China and the huge external costs associated with fossil fuels, straw-based biomass power plants have emerged as a popular alternative to coal-fired power plants. The sustainability of these green alternatives depends on straw supply from farmers, yet little is known about their perceptions regarding such supply because of a lack of cooperation in the supply chain. To better understand farmers' opinions on supplying straw, this study examined their trust in middlemen, perceptions regarding risk in straw supply, the possibility of reducing transaction costs, and their willingness to supply straw. Data were collected from 275 farmers in the national bioenergy industry area in Wangkui County, Northeast China. We investigated the theoretical and empirical connections between trust and risk perception, trust and the possibility of reducing transaction costs, and trust and willingness to supply straw. The results indicated that education, income, and trust factors explained farmers' risk perceptions, the possibility that they will reduce transaction costs, and their willingness to supply straw. On the basis of the analysis, a model of the influence of trust on straw supply was established. The overall findings indicated that biomass power plants and middlemen must build trusting relationships with farmers to ensure sustainable biomass supply.

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Section: Factors Affecting Risk Perceptionsupporting

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“…Government decision making is not only related to technical issues but also involves a combination of economic, social, environmental, and governance concerns . This type of risk is usually manifested in unreasonable site selection and project planning, insufficient technical feasibility analysis, and inappropriate investment return rates, which can consequently cause public opposition and distrust, changes in contracts, and suspension or even termination of the project . Causes resulting in decision errors mainly stem from two dimensions: a low level of public engagement and a lack of relevant experience and knowledge.…”

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“…On the one hand, from the perspective of risk management, different opinions and values can be injected and integrated into decision‐making systems to enable more socially and morally acceptable decisions and to improve the quality of decisions by public engagement . However, this area has been sparsely examined in China, and it has been increasingly recognized as one of the effective measures enhancing decision‐making ability . On the other hand, considering the development of PPP WTE incineration projects in China, the government lacks accurate predictions of demand for such projects or offers unrealistic guarantees owing to limited experience and knowledge of this industry, which can entail substantial future costs.…”

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Determining critical risk factors affecting public‐private partnership waste‐to‐energy incineration projects in China

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Liu

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Energy Science & Engineering

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As the most effective way to manage the surge in municipal solid waste (MSW) and global energy issues, waste‐to‐energy (WTE) incineration plants have been actively promoted by the Chinese government, and the public‐private partnership (PPP) procurement model is widely used to improve management efficiency. However, risk events have occurred frequently in this industry due to a lack of practice experience and to poor risk management. To investigate the potential risk factors in PPP WTE incineration projects in China, this paper aims to identify critical risk factors by assessing their severity and occurrence probability. Opinions of industry experts were collected via an empirical questionnaire survey. The respondents were invited to rate a total of 18 risk factors that impact the success of PPP WTE projects as gleaned from previous research. The overall results ranked risk factors based on risk impact and showed that public opposition, government decision making, defective legal and regulatory systems, environmental pollution, lack of supporting infrastructure, and government credit are the top six risk factors affecting the sustainable development of PPP WTE incineration projects. In addition, the causes and consequences of each critical risk factor are comprehensively analyzed. Lastly, practical and managerial implications are analyzed in terms of their management of these critical risks. The originality of this research lies in thoroughly identifying potential implicit risk factors according to the current social background using an empirical questionnaire survey based on case study findings. The results of this study are expected to improve risk management and facilitate the sustainable development of the PPP WTE incineration industry in China.

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Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan

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Nuclear power has remained a hugely controversial energy technology since the 1970s and became particularly so after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. Engaging citizens in making energy decisions have thus become an increasingly important governing approach to post‐Fukushima energy transitions in many countries. Deliberative participatory processes and learning through social interactions have been increasingly regarded as critical elements of effective public engagement. Yet, little is known about who learns what, how they learn, and what impacts learning has on nuclear governance. Even less is known about the contextual factors influencing social learning. Advancing the literature on nuclear governance, deliberative participation, and social learning, this paper proposes a learning‐oriented framework to evaluate the outcomes of deliberative participation in the context of nuclear governance. We apply this framework in a case study of a national deliberative poll (DP) on energy conducted in Japan in 2012. We critically examine the extent to which and how social learning occurs under the influence of pre‐existing government‐industry‐society relations as a key contextual factor. Mainly based on a qualitative analysis of transcribed materials from a two‐day deliberation over the DP involving 285 citizens, this study has three main findings. First, participating citizens of the DP were able to acquire all of the three orders of social learning through deliberative processes in the DP process. Second, the provision of multiple sources of information, access to diverse perspectives, and the availability of plenty of dialogic processes are identified as factors that were found to facilitate advancement toward higher orders of learning. Third, the “nuclear iron triangle”—a pro‐nuclear coalition—appeared to constrain social learning impacts in the wider socio‐political systems of nuclear governance in Japan.

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Risk perception, trust and public engagement in nuclear decision-making in Hong Kong

Cited by 99 publications

References 55 publications

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Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan

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