How to Shape Climate Risk Policies After the Paris Agreement? The Importance of Perceptions as a Driver for Climate Risk Management
- 1. Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Hamburg, Germany
- 2. Resilience Institute, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA
Description
Risk perception research has played an influential role in supporting risk management and
risk communication policy. Risk perception studies are popular across a range of disciplines in the social
and natural sciences for a wide range of hazard types. Their results have helped to articulate the complex
individual, relational, structural, and environmental factors influencing people’s behavior. Connections
between individual and collective behaviors and norms impacting global climate change, and conse-
quently, local disaster risk, however, are infrequently included in disaster risk management. This paper
presents results from two diverse and complementary European risk perception studies examining both
natural and anthropogenic hazards. Research gaps and recommendations for developing more compre-
hensive risk management strategies are presented.
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- 10.1002/2017EF000597 (DOI)