HSRR07/HSGR08: Relationship between perceived flood risks, problem ownership and household and business adaptation choices
The present project focuses on climate-related flood safety issues in a spatial planning context. It investigates the relationship between flood risk perception, problem ownership and household and business adaptation choices (i.e. impacts on the attractiveness of the region, housing and location choices, demand for flood insurance options, adoption of various kinds of protective behaviour).
The aim is to provide policy-makers and professionals with knowledge on the conditions that can make risk perception work as a positive and not as a negative influencing factor of various types of climate change adaptation (including precautions, self-protection and insurance against risks) that are relevant for the Hotspot area.
The project will use different bodies of literature (i.e. on the risk-frame, the ownership-frame, insurance and adaptation decision-making) and involves a number of related case studies into these topics, based on samples from both unprotected areas and protected areas.