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Research article
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19 Aug 2022
Research article |
| 19 Aug 2022
| 19 Aug 2022
Surveying the surveyors to address risk perception and adaptive-behaviour cross-study comparability
Department of Geography, CY Cergy Paris University, 95011, Cergy-Pontoise, France
Institut Universitaire de France, 75005, Paris, France
Mariana Madruga de Brito
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Alexander Fekete
Institute of Rescue Engineering and Civil Protection, TH Köln –
University of Applied Sciences, Betzdorferstr. 2, 50679 Cologne, Germany
Emeline Comby
Department of Geography, UMR 5600 EVS CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 69007, Lyon, France
Peter J. Robinson
Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental
Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Iuliana Armaş
Department of Geography, University of Bucharest, 010041, Bucharest, Romania
W. J. Wouter Botzen
Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental
Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Christian Kuhlicke
Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of
Potsdam, 14468 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Short summary
It remains unclear why people fail to act adaptively to reduce future losses, even when there is ever-richer information available. To improve the ability of researchers to build cumulative knowledge, we conducted an international survey – the Risk Perception and Behaviour Survey of Surveyors (Risk-SoS). We find that most studies are exploratory and often overlook theoretical efforts that would enable the accumulation of evidence. We offer several recommendations for future studies.
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