Articles | Volume 25, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-4071-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-4071-2025
Research article
 | 
22 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 22 Oct 2025

Unbalanced relationship between flood risk perception and flood preparedness from the perspective of response intention and socio-economic factors: a case study of Nanjing, China

Yabo Li and Peng Wang

Cited articles

Ahmad, D. and Afzal, M.: Flood hazards and factors influencing household flood perception and mitigation strategies in Pakistan, Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res., 27, 15375–15387, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08057-z, 2020. 
Ali, A., Rana, I. A., Ali, A., and Najam, F. A.: Flood risk perception and communication: The role of hazard proximity, J. Environ. Manage., 316, 115309, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115309, 2022. 
Ao, Y., Zhou, X., Ji, F., Wang, Y., Yang, L., Wang, Q., and Martek, I.: Flood disaster preparedness: experience and attitude of rural residents in Sichuan, China, Nat. Hazards, 104, 2591–2618, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04286-0, 2020. 
Bodoque, J. M., Díez-Herrero, A., Amerigo, M., García, J. A., and Olcina, J.: Enhancing flash flood risk perception and awareness of mitigation actions through risk communication: A pre-post survey design, J. Hydrol. (Amst.), 568, 769–779, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.11.007, 2019. 
Bollettino, V., Alcayna-Stevens, T., Sharma, M., Dy, P., Pham, P., and Vinck, P.: Public perception of climate change and disaster preparedness: Evidence from the Philippines, Clim. Risk Manag., 30, 100250, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100250, 2020. 
Download
Short summary
This study investigated the potential association between risk perception and flood preparedness in Nanjing by designing a questionnaire survey. Participants exhibited moderate perceptions of flood risk but demonstrated higher levels of flood preparedness. Participants relied more on threat appraisal to perceive risk, but this failed to trigger sufficient coping appraisal. Threat appraisal can transform into flood preparedness under the influence of response intention and socio-economic features.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint