Book contents
- Community Disaster Recovery
- Organizations and the Natural Environment
- Community Disaster Recovery
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Damage and Resources
- Part II Review
- Part III Individual Beliefs
- 5 Worldviews, Risk Perceptions, and Causal Beliefs
- 6 Trust in Government and Support for Policy Action
- Part III Review
- Part IV Individual and Group Engagement
- Part IV Review
- Part V Connections, Conclusions, and Recommendations
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Trust in Government and Support for Policy Action
from Part III - Individual Beliefs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
- Community Disaster Recovery
- Organizations and the Natural Environment
- Community Disaster Recovery
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Damage and Resources
- Part II Review
- Part III Individual Beliefs
- 5 Worldviews, Risk Perceptions, and Causal Beliefs
- 6 Trust in Government and Support for Policy Action
- Part III Review
- Part IV Individual and Group Engagement
- Part IV Review
- Part V Connections, Conclusions, and Recommendations
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As discussed in Chapter 5, risk perceptions may be influenced by personal experiences, deeply held beliefs, and political ideology. But individual risk perceptions may also be affected by engagement in social processes, such as information seeking and participation in disaster-related discussions. Information sought and consumed after a disaster and trust in these sources of information may influence how individuals think about a disaster, its causes, and support (or not) of policy solutions (see Figure III.1). Furthermore, experiencing a disaster may erode trust in officials that are charged with managing disaster-related risks. Levels of trust in government officials may in turn influence information seeking and support for policy action. This chapter investigates the relationships among individual experiences, information seeking, participation in flood recovery processes, and attitudes toward risk mitigation actions.
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- Community Disaster RecoveryMoving from Vulnerability to Resilience, pp. 100 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021