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Information, Trust and Confidence: A Framework to Understand Public Risk Perceptions After Wildfires in China

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Wildfires are increasingly frequent and intense due to climate change and human activities. Public risk perceptions after wildfires play a critical role in wildfire management, but there is a lack of specific studies in China. Based on theories such as risk perception, this paper constructs a theoretical model of wildfire risk perception, proposes an explanatory framework of information-trust-confidence, and uses principal component analysis (PCA) to analyze and measure the influencing factors of the subjective construction of perceived risk and the degree of influence of different factors. A study of 408 residents in Bijie, China was conducted to find out how information about fire conditions and economic losses, trust in the government, and confidence in coping with wildfires affect risk perception after a wildfire. The study found a negative correlation between information, trust, confidence, and risk perception.

Source: Proceedings of the ... International ISCRAM Conference

DOI: 10.59297/hr08ap65

Authors: Meng Duo, Jun Hu, Zhetao Fang

Institutions: Beijing Normal University, China People's Police University

Language: English

Topic: Disaster Management and Resilience

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province

Awards: G2253596650, G4354876885, G4561065006