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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.009
	Detailed insights into the influence of flood-coping appraisals on mitigation behaviour
	Bubeck P.; Botzen W.J.W.; Kreibich H.; Aerts J.C.J.H.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:5
英文摘要	Insights into flood mitigation behaviour are important because of the ongoing shift to risk-based flood management approaches in Europe and worldwide, which envisage a contribution from flood-prone households to risk reduction. The recent literature on factors that influence flood mitigation behaviour indicates that flood-coping appraisal is an important variable to understand and explain flood mitigation behaviour. Coping appraisal originates from Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), and refers to the cognitive process that people undergo when evaluating their own ability to avoid a certain risk. However, the empirical literature on the importance of coping appraisal is still scarce, and, in particular, little is known about the independent influence of the three single components of coping appraisal on precautionary behaviour: namely, response efficacy, self-efficacy, and response cost. This study presents the results of a recent survey among 752 flood-prone households along the river Rhine in order to provide detailed insights into the influence of the components of flood-coping appraisal on four different types of flood mitigation behaviour: structural building measures, adapted building use, the deployment of flood barriers, and the purchase of flood insurance. The results confirm that flood-coping appraisal is an important variable in terms of precautionary behaviour. In particular, both response efficacy and self-efficacy contribute to the models which explain the four different types of flood-mitigation behaviour. Based on these findings, it is concluded that risk communication should focus more strongly on the potential of flood-mitigation measures to effectively reduce or avoid flood damage, as well as on information about how to implement such measures in practice. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Coping appraisal; Flood risk; Mitigation behaviour; Protection Motivation Theory
学科领域	flood; flood control; flood damage; risk assessment; Europe; Rhine River
语种	英语
scopus关键词	flood; flood control; flood damage; risk assessment; Europe; Rhine River
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117919
作者单位	Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081HV Amsterdam, Netherlands; Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Section Hydrology, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bubeck P.,Botzen W.J.W.,Kreibich H.,et al. Detailed insights into the influence of flood-coping appraisals on mitigation behaviour[J],2013,23(5).
APA	Bubeck P.,Botzen W.J.W.,Kreibich H.,&Aerts J.C.J.H..(2013).Detailed insights into the influence of flood-coping appraisals on mitigation behaviour.Global Environmental Change,23(5).
MLA	Bubeck P.,et al."Detailed insights into the influence of flood-coping appraisals on mitigation behaviour".Global Environmental Change 23.5(2013).