Public Risk Perception and Risk Communication of Typhoon Disaster

DOI

10.2991/jrarc.2016.6.4.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

risk perception; risk communication; typhoon disaster

Abstract

Public risk perception is the basis for effective natural disaster risk communication, and the latter can strongly influence the former. Take typhoon disaster as an example, this paper constructs the theory model of 12 factors affecting risk perception from three dimensions by public individual characteristics, risk situational characteristics, risk communication efficiency, which influence the input, output and transmission of risk information. Then the theory was applied in typhoon disaster in Zhanjiang city, and it comes out that the theory is reliable. Finally, the contents of typhoon disaster risk perception capacity construction were given in this paper as risk communication capacity building, special platform construction and cultural environment of risk communication, which is the only way for effective risk communication.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zhihai Shang
AU  - Liping Li
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/12/30
TI  - Public Risk Perception and Risk Communication of Typhoon Disaster
JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
SP  - 213
EP  - 220
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
SN  - 2210-8505
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrarc.2016.6.4.6
DO  - 10.2991/jrarc.2016.6.4.6
ID  - Shang2016
ER  -