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Les comportements de protection face au risque naturel : de la résistance à l’engagement
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In this paper, the authors discuss the problem of impliquer ces populations and comprendre leurs reactions face a l’eventualite de la survenue d'une catastrophe.About:
This article is published in Pratiques Psychologiques.The article was published on 2011-09-01. It has received 44 citations till now.read more
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Representations of coastal risk (erosion and marine flooding) among inhabitants of at-risk municipalities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a combined environmental psychology-geography approach to study representations of coastal erosion and sea flooding among inhabitants of coastal areas and found that coastal risks are not a top priority for respondents.
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Linking social capacities and risk communication in Europe: a gap between theory and practice?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of 60 risk communication practices from across Europe and make some recommendations for the way in which such practices could be improved in order to be more supportive of social capacities across Europe.
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Drinking water quality in areas impacted by oil activities in Ecuador: Associated health risks and social perception of human exposure
Laurence Maurice,Fausto López,Sylvia Becerra,Hala Jamhoury,Karyn Le Menach,Marie-Hélène Devier,Hélène Budzinski,Jonathan Prunier,Guilhem Juteau-Martineau,Valeria Ochoa-Herrera,Diego Quiroga,Eva Schreck +11 more
TL;DR: Most (72%) of interviewed families knew sanitary risks but a discrepancy was observed between knowledge and action: religious beliefs, cultural patterns, information sources, experience and emotions play an important role front to exposure.
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Resistance to relocation in flood-vulnerable coastal areas: a proposed composite index
TL;DR: The increasing number of coastal floods in recent years in France has resulted in the design of new adaptation principles for the most endangered coastal areas as mentioned in this paper, and the aim of the government is to redu...
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Comprendre les comportements face à un risque modéré d’inondation. Etude de cas dans le périurbain toulousain (Sud-Ouest de la France)
Sylvia Becerra,Anne Peltier,Jean-Marc Antoine,David Labat,Jacques Chorda,Olivier Ribolzi,Denis Dartus +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of the hazard in the studied watersheds influence the hydrological risk perception and thereby people's motivation to take action, and they show that it is necessary to adapt the communication on risk: by personalizing information, improving the hydrologogical explanation of the flooding process, and initiating new forms of mediation between water management or administration and the riverine inhabitants.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping
Richard S. Lazarus,Susan Folkman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence.
Thomas L. Webb,Paschal Sheeran +1 more
TL;DR: Meta-analysis showed that a medium-to-large change in intention leads to a small- to-medium change in behavior, and several conceptual factors, methodological features, and intervention characteristics that moderate intention-behavior consistency were identified.
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