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The Informed Society: An Analysis of the Public's Information‐Seeking Behavior Regarding Coastal Flood Risks
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Recent flood risk management puts an increasing emphasis on the public's risk perception and its preferences. It is now widely recognized that a better knowledge of the public's awareness and concern about risks is of vital importance to outline effective risk communication strategies. Models such as Risk Information Seeking and Processing address this evolution by considering the public's needs and its information‐seeking behavior with regard to risk information. This study builds upon earlier information‐seeking models and focuses on the empirical relationships between information‐seeking behavior and the constructs of risk perception, perceived hazard knowledge, response efficacy, and information need in the context of coastal flood risks. Specific focus is given to the mediating role of information need in the model and to the differences in information‐seeking behavior between permanent and temporary residents. By means of a structured on‐line questionnaire, a cross‐sectional survey was carried out in the city of Ostend, one of the most vulnerable places to coastal flooding on the Belgian coast. Three hundred thirteen respondents participated in the survey. Path analysis reveals that information need does not act as a mediator in contrast to risk perception and perceived knowledge. In addition, it is shown that risk perception and perceived hazard knowledge are higher for permanent than temporary residents, leading to increased information‐seeking behavior among the former group. Implications for risk communication are discussed.
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“In 2012, Kellens et al. explored the main determinants of information seeking behavior. The results showed that risk perception, efficacy beliefs, and perceived hazard knowledge were positively correlated with information seeking behavior.”
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“The classification of residents found that risk perception level and perceived hazard knowledge were higher for permanent residents compared to temporary residents, leading to increased information seeking behavior among permanent residents [29].”
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“Previous studies have found that perceived information-gathering capacity was an influential factor driving information seeking behavior.”
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“in contrast to other contexts [29,62], in the RSS, we conclude that self-efficacy and perceived hazard characteristics have an indirect effect on information seeking behavior in the RSS through information sufficiency.”
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“Kellens et al. used risk information seeking behavior related to a coastal flood as a case study, and discussed the intermediary role that information insufficiency plays between perceived hazard characteristics and information seeking behavior [29].”
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“The stronger the perceived information-gathering capacity was, the more confident people were that they could get the needed information, and the stronger their desire was to search for the information [20,29,48].”
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“Kellens et al. reported that self-efficacy was negatively correlated with information seeking behavior [29].”
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- Authors
- Kellens, W., Zaalberg, R., & De Maeyer, P.
- Venue
- Risk Analysis
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-12-09
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1369-1381
- ISSN
- 0272-4332
- 1539-6924
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- 113
- References
- 3
- Language
- en
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