Disaster-risk communication, perceptions and relocation decisions of rural residents in a multi-disaster environment: Evidence from Sichuan, China

《Disaster-risk communication, perceptions and relocation decisions of rural residents in a multi-disaster environment: Evidence from Sichuan, China》

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作者: Kaijing Xue;Sha Cao;Yi Liu;Dingde Xu;Shaoquan Liu

来源: HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.127,P.102646

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, #9, Block 4, Renminnan Road, Chengdu, 610041, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China;Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, 310014, Zhejiang Province, China;School of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China;College of Management of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China;Sichuan Center for Rural Development Research, College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, 611130, China;Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, #9, Block 4, Renminnan Road, Chengdu, 610041, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China;Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, 310014, Zhejiang Province, China;School of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China;College of Management of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China;Sichuan Center for Rural Development Research, College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, 611130, China;Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Management, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;School of Public Affairs Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Renewal and Spatial Optimization Technology, PR China;International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Conservation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore;Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of Colorado Denver, CO, USA;Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;College of Arts and Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA;Center for Metropolitan Studies and Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis at Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-070, SP, Brazil;Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

摘要: Existing studies on disaster-risk management from the humanistic perspective have focused on disaster-risk perception as the starting point and ignored the important role of risk communication in shaping individual risk perception and changing behavioural responses. Taking Sichuan Province―a typical disaster-prone province in China―as an example and selecting rural residents in mountainous areas threatened by multiple disasters as interviewees, this study measured the characteristics of interviewees’ disaster-risk communication in the four dimensions of content preference, channel selection, communication frequency and communication form, and appraised the levels of their disaster-risk perceptions in the four dimensions of possibility, threat, self-efficacy and response efficacy. Additionally, econometric models were used to explore the chain of disaster-risk communication, perceptions and relocation decisions in different scenarios in the context of multiple disasters. The results revealed two main findings. (1) In the scenario where social relations promoted the relocation decision, interviewees derived their relocation decisions by two action paths: disaster-risk communication indirectly influenced relocation decisions through risk perception and disaster-risk communication directly influenced relocation decisions. For the indirect action path, the disaster-risk communication of interviewees had a significant impact on their risk perceptions, and self-efficacy and response efficacy played effective roles in their relocation decisions. For the direct action path, some channels of access to information and indicators of the communication form were significantly correlated with the relocation decision. (2) In the relocation-decision scenario promoted by the government, interviewees derived their relocation decision only by their disaster-risk communication. In risk communication, some channels of access to information and the communication forms of residents were significantly correlated with their relocation decisions, while the role of disaster-risk perceptions was ineffective.