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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Roman Seidl, Cord Droegemueller, Pius Krutli, Clemens Walther
Summary: Public trust is crucial for the acceptance of the procedure and decision-making process for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, while trust has a lesser impact on the acceptance of the repository facility itself. The public can be categorized into three clusters based on their levels of trust, risk perception, and acceptance: risk-focused, ambivalent, and indifferent.
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Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Hongfeng Qiu, Suwei Weng, Michael Shengtao Wu
Summary: This study found an association between Chinese newspapers' framing of nuclear power and public trust in government as well as their reactions to nuclear risk. The more respondents identified with the news framing, the more trust they placed in the government regarding nuclear risk control. Public identification with news framing also mediated the effect of trust in government on risk perceptions and acceptance.
JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Peter Wiedemann, Franziska U. Boerner, Frederik Freudenstein
Summary: The study indicates that qualitative uncertainty descriptions for hazard identification can decrease confidence in the professional competencies of assessors, while a quantitative uncertainty description for risk characterization does not impact any dependent variables. Regarding risk protection, trust in exposure limit values is not affected by qualitative uncertainty information, but a qualitative description of uncertainty regarding the adequacy of protection can increase fears. Additionally, explaining this uncertainty leads to lower text understandability.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Shuai Zhou
Summary: This study provides deeper insights into the understanding of consumers' pro-environmental behavior in the context of COVID-19 through the combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA. The results showed that COVID-19 risk perception, nostalgia, awe of nature, and attitude have a positive effect on pro-environmental behavior, and the moderating effect of power distance belief between nostalgia and attitude and pro-environmental behavior was confirmed.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Seungkook Roh, Hae-Gyung Geong
Summary: This study extended the trust-acceptability model to investigate the public acceptance of nuclear power in the context of nuclear phase-out in South Korea. The findings revealed that trust in government and environmental non-governmental groups had negative impacts on nuclear power acceptance, while trust in nuclear energy authority and nuclear academia had positive effects. Trust variables influenced nuclear power acceptance partially through indirect effects on benefit perception and risk perception.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xin Li, Zhenhui Liu, Tena Wuyun
Summary: This study examines the relationship between students' environmental value (EV) and pro-environmental behavior (PEB) within a values-belief-norm framework. The results suggest that EV positively predicts PEB among young adults, with risk perception (RP) and moral anger (MA) playing critical mediating roles. This study has important implications for practitioners seeking to encourage ecofriendly behavior by promoting risk perception and stimulating moral emotions about the environment.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ahyoung Yoon, Daeyoung Jeong, Jinhyung Chon
Summary: The study focused on the relationship between individuals' risk perception of microplastics and pro-environmental behavioral intention, highlighting the mediating roles of feelings of guilt and social responsibility. The results indicated that knowledge as an environmental trigger influences risk perception, which in turn significantly affects pro-environmental behavioral intention.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Vladimir M. Cvetkovic, Adem Ocal, Yuliya Lyamzina, Eric K. Noji, Neda Nikolic, Goran Milosevic
Summary: Nuclear power is considered as one of the accessible options to address environmental and social concerns, despite its low price and emissions, potential accidents remain a serious issue. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident served as a reminder of the risks associated with nuclear energy. A study in Serbia found that the majority of respondents are skeptical towards the construction of nuclear power stations in the country.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Camilla Stromback, Emma Lindkvist, Daniel Vastfjall
Summary: Climate change is a pressing issue that requires a societal change and a shift in lifestyle. This study aims to examine the correlation between self-control, environmental well-being, and pro-environmental behavior. The results show a positive correlation between self-control and environmental well-being, as well as a weaker but still positive correlation between self-control and some pro-environmental behaviors. Political orientation was found to be a better predictor of sound environmental behavior than subjective self-control.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Hitomi Matsunaga, Makiko Orita, Yasuyuki Taira, Kaoru Shibayama, Koichi Shinchi, Noboru Takamura
Summary: This study aimed to assess the risk perception of guardians residing near the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant (GNPP) and to identify factors related to health. The results showed that a majority of guardians believed in genetic effects among the generations who were children at the time of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, while a smaller percentage were concerned about their children consuming foods from Fukushima. Female guardians expressed higher levels of anxiety regarding prophylactic stable iodine (SI) and genetic effects. Interestingly, overall risk perception was not significantly associated with the distance of guardians' residence to the GNPP.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xinya Yang
Summary: China, as a leading producer of environmental pollution, is facing increasing environmental risks. This study investigated the types and severity perception of the public's environmental risk perception in China and examined the influence of different types of trust on environmental risk perception. The results revealed that living and natural environmental risk perceptions are the two major concerns of the public. Trust in the government and media can help attenuate the perception of living environmental risk, while the influence on natural environmental risk perception is relatively low. Therefore, promoting trust in the government (especially local government) and media can be crucial for effective environmental risk management.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhicheng Zeng, Wenjun Zhong, Shumaila Naz
Summary: This study aims to investigate the influence of environmental knowledge and environmental risk perceptions on the environmental concerns of university students, and to examine the moderating role of environmental attitudes in the association between environmental concerns and pro-environmental behavior. The results showed that environmental knowledge and environmental risk perceptions were positively and significantly related to environmental concerns, and environmental concerns and pro-environmental behavior were positively and significantly related to sustainable consumption behavior.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jiale Zhang, Farzana Quoquab, Jihad Mohammad
Summary: This study examines the impact of risk communication and risk perception related to the pandemic on tourists' intention to engage in pro-environmental travel behavior. The results show that risk communication and cognitive risk perception significantly influence pro-environmental travel behavioral intention (PETBI). The study also confirms the mediating role of cognitive risk perception between risk communication and PETBI. Additionally, environmental responsibility and environmental concern are identified as significant mediators between risk perception and environmental moral obligation.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jiaping Zhang, Xiaomei Gong, Zhongkun Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the impact of Internet use on the trust cost of environmental risk to government. The results show that Internet use has a significant positive influence on individuals' perception of environmental risk, which indirectly leads to a decline in their trust in government. The study also finds that the effect of Internet use on the political cost of environmental risk varies depending on people's purpose of Internet use and their attitudes towards online information.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuwei Wang, Yidong Wu, Zhijie Han
Summary: The study found that extreme weather significantly inhibits residents' pro-environmental behaviors and reduces their motivation to engage in such behaviors.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
