The role of knowledge in students’ flood-risk perception

Bostrom A, Fischhoff B, Morgan MG (1992) Characterizing mental models of hazardous processes: a methodology and an application to radon. J Soc Issues 48:85–100 Botzen WJW, Aerts JCJH, van den Bergh JCJM (2009) Dependence of flood risk perceptions on socioeconomic and objective risk factors. Water Resour Res 45. doi:10.1029/2009WR007743 Cohn LD, Macfarlane S, Yanez C, Imai WK (1995) Risk-perception: differences between adolescents and adults. Health Psychol 14:217–222 Courville T, Thompson B (2001) Use of structure coefficients in published multiple regression articles: β is not enough. Educ Psychol Meas 61:229–248 Deltacommittee (2008) Working together with water. A living land builds for its future. Findings of the Deltacommittee 2008, Rotterdam Elkind D (1967) Egocentrism in adolescence. Child Dev 38:1025–1034 Finucane ML, Peters E, Slovic P (2003) Judgment and decision making: the dance of affect and reason. In: Schneider SL, Shanteau J (eds) Emerging perspectives on judgment and decision research. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp 327–364 Grothmann T, Reusswig F (2006) People at risk of flooding: why some residents take precautionary action while others do not. Nat Hazards 38:101–120 Hermand D, Mullet E, Rompteaux L et al (1999) Societal risk perception among children, adolescents, adults and elderly people. J Adult Dev 6:137–143 Intomart GfK (2010) Watermonitor 2009: inzicht in waterbewustzijn van burgers en draagvlak voor beleid. Hilversum, Intomart GfK Johnson BB (1993) Advancing understanding of knowledge’s role in lay risk perception risk. Issues Health Saf 4:189–212 Kellens W, Terpstra T, Schelfaut K, De Maeyer P (2011) Perception and communication of flood risks: a literature review. In: Kellens W (ed) Analysis, perception and communication of coastal flood risks: examining objective and subjective risk assessment. Dissertation, Ghent University, pp 83–130 Lijklema S (2001) Water beheren en communiceren: een studie naar het publieke draagvlak voor het waterbeheer in Nederland. Dissertation, Wageningen University Lindell MK, Perry RW (1993) Risk area residents’ changing perceptions of volcano hazard at Mt. St. Helens. In: Nemec J et al (eds) Prediction and perception of natural hazards. Kluwer Academic, London, pp 159–166 Lindell MK, Perry RW (2004) Communicating environmental risk in multiethnic communities. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA Loewenstein GF, Weber EU, Hsee CK, Welch N (2001) Risk as feelings. Psychol Bull 127:267–286 Mileti DS, Peek L (2000) The social psychology of public response to warnings of a nuclear power plant accident. J Hazard Mater 75:181–194 Millstein SG, Halpern-Felsher BL (2002) Judgments about risk and perceived invulnerability in adolescents and young adults. J Res Adolescence 12:399–422 Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (2006) Kabinetsstandpunt Rampenbeheersing Overstromingen DGW/WV 2006/1306 Poortinga W, Pidgeon NF (2003) Exploring the dimensionality of trust in risk regulation. Risk Anal 23:961–972 Quadrel MJ, Fischhoff B, Davis W (1993) Adolescent (in)vulnerability. Am Psychol 2:102–116 Renn O, Rohrmann B (eds) (2000) Cross-cultural risk perception. Kluwer Publishes, Dordrecht Ronan KR, Johnston DM (2001) Correlates of hazards education programs for youth. Risk Anal 21:1055–1063 Ronan KR, Johnston DM, Daly M, Fairley R (2001) School children’s risk perceptions and preparedness: a hazards education survey. Australas J Disaster Trauma Stud 1:2 Ronan KR, Crellin K, Johnston DM (2010) Correlates of hazards education programs for youth: a replication study. Nat Hazards 53:503–526 Shaw R, Kobayashi M (2001) The role of schools in creating earthquake-safer environment. Paper presented at the OECD workshop disaster management and educational facilities. Thessaloniki, Greece. http://www.preventionweb.net/files/5342_SesiRoleSchoolsEQSafety.pdf. Accessed 13 July 2013 Shaw R, Shiwaku K, Kobayashi H, Kobayashi M (2004) Linking experience, education, perception and earthquake preparedness. Disaster Prev Manag 13:39–49 Siegrist M, Cvetkovich GT (2000) Perception of hazards: the role of social trust and knowledge. Risk Anal 20:713–719 Siegrist M, Gutscher H (2006) Flooding risks: a comparison of lay people’s perceptions and expert’s assessments in Switzerland. Risk Anal 26:971–979 Sjöberg L (2003) The different dynamics of personal and general risk. Risk Manag 5:19–34 Sjöberg L, Moen B, Rundmo T (2004) Explaining risk perception: an evaluation of the psychometric paradigm in risk perception research. Rotunde 84 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, Trondheim Slovic P, Fischhoff B, Lichtenstein S (1981) Perceived risk: psychological factors and social implications. Proc R Soc Lond A 376:17–34 Slovic P, Finucane ML, Peters E, MacGregor DG (2004) Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: some thoughts about affect, reason, risk and rationality. Risk Anal 24:311–322 Terpstra T (2011) Emotions, trust and perceived risk. Affective and cognitive routes to flood preparedness behavior. Risk Anal 31:1658–1675 Terpstra T, Lindell MK (2012) Citizens’ perceptions of flood hazard adjustments: an application of the protective action decision model. Environ Behav. doi:10.1177/0013916512452427 van den Berg G (ed) (2003) BuiteNLand (geography course books for pre-university education (VWO) and senior general secondary education (HAVO), 1st edn. EPN, Houten van den Berg G (ed) (2008) BuiteNLand (geography course books for pre-university education (VWO) and senior general secondary education (HAVO), 2nd edn. EPN, Houten van den Berg G (ed) (2009) Handboek vakdidactiek aardrijkskunde. Landelijk Expertisecentrum Mens- en Maatschappijvakken/Centrum voor Educatieve Geografie, Amsterdam Weinstein ND (1989) Optimistic biases about personal risks. Science 246:1232–1233