Does communicating (flood) risk affect (flood) risk perceptions? results of a quasi-experimental study

Risk Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1141-1155

  Terpstra, Teun ^a   Lindell, Michael K ^b   Gutteling, Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood risk; Personal experience; Polarization; Risk communication; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CHANGE; CONTROL GROUPS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOOD RISK; FLOOD RISKS; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP DISCUSSIONS; NATURAL HAZARD; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RISK COMMUNICATION; SMALL-SCALE FLOODS; WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS;

COMMUNICATION; MACHINE DESIGN; POLARIZATION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOOD; PERCEPTION; POLARIZATION; RISK PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; FLOODS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 68149132615     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01252.x     Document Type: Article

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