Investigators at Institute of Mountain Hazards & Environment Describe Findings in Sustainability Research (Understanding sustainable disaster mitigation of stakeholder engagement: Risk perception, trust in public institutions, and disaster …)

2019 NOV 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily -- Research findings on Sustainability Research are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Sichuan, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Many rural settlements in China’s western mountainous regions are affected by mountain disasters, such as landslides and mudslides. For residents living in landslide-prone areas, behaviors related to disaster risk mitigation (such as purchasing disaster insurance) are inevitably affected by disaster risk perception.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the Institute of Mountain Hazards & Environment, “Due to the substantial differences in disaster occurrence patterns, landslide-related insurance research is relatively rare compared with insurance research focused on other types of natural disasters (e.g., floods and droughts). Based on the results of questionnaires administered in landslide-prone areas in Chongqing, China, this paper uses partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to investigate the relationships among the questionnaire respondents’ risk perception, trust in public institutions (TPI), and willingness to buy disaster insurance (WBDI). The results reveal that risk perception and TPI directly affect WBDI. Here, competence, participation, possibility perception, and fear perception are significantly positively correlated to WBDI, whereby fear perception has the largest impact, followed by possibility perception, competence, and participation. In addition, TPI indirectly affects WBDI through risk perception. Here, competence reduces fear perception and indirectly reduces WBDI. The implications of these results for theory are discussed.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This study introduces a new method to support disaster risk mitigation-related decision making that can be useful to governments and individuals.”

For more information on this research see: Understanding sustainable disaster mitigation of stakeholder engagement: Risk perception, trust in public institutions, and disaster insurance. Sustainable Development, 2019;27(5):885-897. Sustainable Development can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Sustainable Development - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1719)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting L. Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mountain Hazards & Environment, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include J. Tan, L. Lin and D.D. Xu.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1948. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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