Perceptions of flood risk

Flood risk perception and responses among urban residents in the ...

While several participants had vivid memories of past floods, overall salience of flood risk was low. While they recognized responsiveness of local government ...

What is a flood? Risk perceptions and decisions - Understanding Risk

Flood risk perception is the assessment of the probability of hazard and the probability of results perceived by society and is a key aspect of flood risk ...

What determines flood risk perception? A review of factors of flood ...

Therefore, among the three elements of flood risk perception analysed in the work, the aspect of preparedness has been analysed in-depth in ...

Flood risk perception, disaster preparedness and response in flood ...

Rapid urbanisation is contributing to increasing societal vulnerability to disaster. This study aimed at exploring the perception on flood risk and ...

Factors of influence on flood risk perceptions related to Hurricane ...

Most changes in flood risk perception are statistically insignificant, except for feelings of worry about the dangers of flooding. The mean ...

Experience of localized flooding predicts urban flood risk perception ...

Importantly, we found that the experience of less intense localized events—seeing standing water and flooding near home—are also associated with ...

Assessment of Public Flood Risk Perception and Influencing Factors

Many factors influencing public flood risk perception were selected based on the literature [34]. Based on the literature, our study hypothesized that the ...

Dependence of flood risk perceptions on socioeconomic and ...

Individuals living far away from a main river are less likely to rate their flood risk as higher than average. Furthermore, the higher the ...

Communities' risk perceptions lessen flood hazards impact - Nature

The way governments are tackling and achieving flood risk reduction is a key factor for climate change adaptation in coastal urban areas, and ...

Approaches in research on flood risk perception and their ...

Studies on perception that apply the constructivist approach are in an early stage of development, nevertheless providing consistent results.

Factors of influence on flood risk perceptions related to Hurricane ...

The objectives of our study are to understand the tempo- ral dynamics in flood risk perceptions shortly before a hur- ricane makes landfall and ...

Exploring the role of risk perception in influencing flood losses over ...

The lack of engagement with the matter of flood risks and the underestimation of the society's risk will likely result in floods not remaining on the agenda for ...

(PDF) The Impact of Perceived Flood Exposure on Flood-Risk ...

The article finds that distance to the perceived flood zone (perceived flood exposure) is a crucial factor in determining flood-risk perception, ...

A Review of Risk Perceptions and Other Factors that Influence Flood ...

We conclude, there- fore, that the current focus on risk perceptions as a means to explain and promote private flood mitigation behavior is not supported on ...

Flood Risk Perception and Its Attributes among Rural Households ...

The results of the current study also showed that the perception of flood risk differed across the heads of households. For example, a household ...

Understanding risk perception from floods: a case study from China

Results shows that most of the respondents living on a floodplain have no direct experience of floods. In our study area, the risk of flood is ...

After the virtual flood: Risk perceptions and flood preparednessafter ...

The results showed large knowledge gains and some more positive attitudes towards the environment after the VR experience. We predict an increase in risk ...

How do people perceive flood risk? Findings from a public survey in ...

Overall, respondents showed a moderate perception of flood risk: average RPS was 4.91, where values ranged from 2 to 10, with a SD of 1.93.

Flood Risk and River Conservation: Mapping Citizen Perception to ...

Flood Risk and River Conservation: Mapping Citizen Perception to Support Sustainable River Management ... Involving citizens in river and flood risk management is ...

Risk perception and the choice to live in flood risk zones? - Digi-Face

The review found that what influences people's behavior in response to environmental impacts like floods is inherently embedded within their culture and society ...