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Human perception assesses risk differently to other threat measures in place

30.09.2018


"Familiar risks" are more easily accepted than "new and unfamiliar risks"

30.09.2018


Individuals' definitions of ”risk”

30.09.2018


The later stages of modernity are creating a world full of uncontrollable and unknown risks

30.09.2018


Global risks are often exogenous and caused by decisions made in core states and areas that influences the periphery of a world-system

30.09.2018


Environmental problems are problems of people: their history, their living conditions, their relation to the world and reality and their social, cultural and political situations

30.09.2018


The greatest challenge in risk societies is the maintenance of ontological security

30.09.2018


Replacing traditional dogmas with reason has reduced levels of perceived security

30.09.2018


Current social forms and institutions are dominated by constant change, with no reference guidelines or long-term plans, which has resulted in risk becoming a prevalent phenomenon of our time

30.09.2018


Risk is "manufactured" as a moral danger, especially in the public health domain

30.09.2018


Culture provides socially constructed myths about nature which, in turn, influence the individual interpretation of natural phenomena

30.09.2018


The more serious the hazard, the higher the level of perceived risk and the greater the degree of public concern

30.09.2018


Hyperbolic discounting - the tendency to discount future gains in favour of more immediate rewards

30.09.2018


Cultural Factors: Attitudes toward environmental issues, Worldviews

Hazards: Natural hazards

Disaster Phases: Prevention

Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens

When powerlessness is negatively associated with mitigation intentions, victims become reluctant to engage in risk mitigation activities

30.09.2018


Optimism bias: the tendency to overestimate the probability of positive events and underestimate that of negative ones

30.09.2018


Illusion of control: the tendency to overestimate the amount control they have over events

30.09.2018


Availability bias: recalling particular examples In judging the frequency of events

30.09.2018


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