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The Anticipated Emotional Consequences of Adaptive Behaviour-Impacts on the Take-up of Household Flood-Protection Measures

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ID4143111
AuthorsTim Harries (0000-0002-9740-3425, Behaviour and Practice Research Group, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames KT2 7LB, England, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume44
Issue3
Pages649-668
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a43612
OpenAlexW2104220358
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited58

When considering householder responses to flood risk, researchers and policy makers have perhaps focused too much on the influence of risk perceptions and concerns about material costs and benefits. Using secondary analysis of survey data from UK households who had experienced flooding or who were at risk of flooding, this paper presents evidence to suggest that protective behaviour may be influenced less by material and financial considerations than by concerns about feelings of anxiety and insecurity. It also looks at the role of beliefs about protection and flooding in mediating the impacts of flood experience and suggests that experience reduces confidence in the ameliorative capacity of insurance and promotes the belief that protective measures increase anxiety about flooding. The paper concludes that more research should be carried out on the role of anticipated emotions in risk response and that policy makers and the designers of protection products should pay more attention to the emotional barriers and incentives to adaptation

Actuarial science · Anxiety · Business · Climate change · Climate risk · Economics · Environmental planning · Feeling · Flood insurance · Flood myth · Geography · Incentive · Perception · Public economics · Risk perception · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social Psychology

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