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Miguel de França Doria
Researcher at UNESCO
Publications - 8
Citations - 1318
Miguel de França Doria is an academic researcher from UNESCO. The author has contributed to research in topics: Water supply & Risk perception. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 8 publications receiving 1170 citations. Previous affiliations of Miguel de França Doria include University of East Anglia.
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Factors influencing public perception of drinking water quality.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some of the main variables involved in public perception of drinking water quality, including risk perception, attitudes towards water chemicals, contextual cues provided by the supply system, familiarity with specific water properties, trust in suppliers, past problems attributed to water quality and information provided by media and interpersonal sources.
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Bottled water versus tap water: understanding consumers' preferences.
TL;DR: Some of the reasons why people decide for an option that is often more expensive and less comfortable than tap water are discussed, including demographic variables and the perceived quality of the water source.
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Perceptions of drinking water quality and risk and its effect on behaviour: a cross-national study.
TL;DR: It is suggested that perceptions of water quality and risk result from a complex interaction of diverse factors, including organoleptics, perceived water chemicals, external information, past health problems, and trust in water suppliers, among other factors.
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Cross-national comparisons of image associations with "global warming" and "climate change" among laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain
Irene Lorenzoni,Anthony Leiserowitz,Miguel de França Doria,Wouter Poortinga,Nicholas Frank Pidgeon +4 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the affective images underlying public risk perceptions of climate change through comparative findings from national surveys in the USA and in Great Britain and found that climate change is psychologically distant for most individuals in both nations.
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Fault tree analysis of the causes of waterborne outbreaks.
Helen Risebro,Miguel de França Doria,Yvonne Andersson,Gertjan Medema,Keith Osborn,Olivier Schlosser,Paul R. Hunter +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an outbreak fault tree was developed and applied to 61 enteric outbreaks related to public drinking water supplies in the EU, and each event was assigned a score based on percentage contribution per outbreak.