Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change,especially in fire-prone environments such as the Mediterranean Basin.Distinguishing rationalities,i.e.,the c...Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change,especially in fire-prone environments such as the Mediterranean Basin.Distinguishing rationalities,i.e.,the complex profile of multi-thematic,wildfire-related perceptions that collectively characterize and quantify all of a society’s responses,its interrelations,and influence on its insights,are of primary importance to understand the degree of preparedness and the direction that wildfire management policies are moving.Greece is a country that suffered mega-wildfire events during the first years of the twenty-first century.This paper presents a scheme of advanced multivariate statistical procedures applied on standard social survey questionnaires to uncover different or similar rationalities between fire management services and the general public.Profession-centered versus message-oriented rationalities is defined.They differ mainly on the priorities attributed to strengthening personnel and equipment capacities versus the need for public education and awareness.Both are evaluated against the needs of long-term risk assessment and forest management policies in Greece.The main conclusion is that Greek society,although traumatized by recent fire disasters,is not yet prepared for long-term strategic forestry adaptation and planning.展开更多
This study investigated the feature of Chinese peoples?perception of SARS by surveying a stratified sample of 4231 people from 17 cities in China, and primarily pro-posed a risk perception centered predictive model of...This study investigated the feature of Chinese peoples?perception of SARS by surveying a stratified sample of 4231 people from 17 cities in China, and primarily pro-posed a risk perception centered predictive model of psy-chological behavior in crisis. The results indicated that, negative SARS-related information, especially informationof personal interest, will arouse peoples risk perception ofhigh level, and lead to irrational nervousness or scare; but positive SARS-related information, including recovery in-formation and that with measures taken by government, can decrease the level of risk perception. In the middle of May, people felt the highest level of risk on the SARS pathogens; the following are the physical health condition and infectiv-ity after recovering from SARS; they are factors that needspecial attention. SEM result analyses supported our hy-potheses in that SARS-related information affect people抯coping behavior and mental health through their riskperception, the four indices of risk assessment, feeling ofnerv- ousness, coping behavior and mental health areeffective presentimental indices for public psychological behavior in risky events.展开更多
文摘Wildfire risk related to hazards on people and assets is expected to increase in the face of climate change,especially in fire-prone environments such as the Mediterranean Basin.Distinguishing rationalities,i.e.,the complex profile of multi-thematic,wildfire-related perceptions that collectively characterize and quantify all of a society’s responses,its interrelations,and influence on its insights,are of primary importance to understand the degree of preparedness and the direction that wildfire management policies are moving.Greece is a country that suffered mega-wildfire events during the first years of the twenty-first century.This paper presents a scheme of advanced multivariate statistical procedures applied on standard social survey questionnaires to uncover different or similar rationalities between fire management services and the general public.Profession-centered versus message-oriented rationalities is defined.They differ mainly on the priorities attributed to strengthening personnel and equipment capacities versus the need for public education and awareness.Both are evaluated against the needs of long-term risk assessment and forest management policies in Greece.The main conclusion is that Greek society,although traumatized by recent fire disasters,is not yet prepared for long-term strategic forestry adaptation and planning.
基金supported by the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(CAS Program in key direction,Grant No.KSCX2-SW-221:Innovations’Grants of Institute of Psychology,No.2002l7)the National Natural Sciences of China(Emergency Grant No.70340002).
文摘This study investigated the feature of Chinese peoples?perception of SARS by surveying a stratified sample of 4231 people from 17 cities in China, and primarily pro-posed a risk perception centered predictive model of psy-chological behavior in crisis. The results indicated that, negative SARS-related information, especially informationof personal interest, will arouse peoples risk perception ofhigh level, and lead to irrational nervousness or scare; but positive SARS-related information, including recovery in-formation and that with measures taken by government, can decrease the level of risk perception. In the middle of May, people felt the highest level of risk on the SARS pathogens; the following are the physical health condition and infectiv-ity after recovering from SARS; they are factors that needspecial attention. SEM result analyses supported our hy-potheses in that SARS-related information affect people抯coping behavior and mental health through their riskperception, the four indices of risk assessment, feeling ofnerv- ousness, coping behavior and mental health areeffective presentimental indices for public psychological behavior in risky events.
