- Title
- Expanding protection motivation theory: The role of coping experience in flood risk adaptation intentions in informal settlements
- Creator
- Tasantab, Jerry Chati; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Maund, Kim
- Relation
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Vol. 76, Issue 15 June 2022, no. 103020
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103020
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Building resilience through flooding risk adaptation, a long-term and anticipatory measure, has become a crucial disaster risk reduction strategy against the backdrop of the changing climate. Policymakers and practitioners thus need to develop a robust understanding of factors that influence people's intentions to adopt protective measures. This study investigated the factors influencing flood risk adaptation intentions using a survey of 392 households in Glefe, Accra. The survey used a Likert-scale based questionnaire to collect data. We then conducted structural equation modeling analysis to test hypothesized relationships. The results revealed that flood experience, coping experience, flood risk vulnerability and severity perceptions, and perceived adaptation capacity have a statistically significant relationship with adaptation intentions. The residents' perception of their adaptive capacity, represented by self-efficacy and response efficacy, determined the strength of the intention to adapt to flooding risks. The findings make significant contributions to knowledge by (a) defining and validating ‘Coping Experience’ and ‘Flood Risk Adaptation Intention’ as measurable latent constructs and (b) providing a path for developing protective measures to enable adaptation. The findings also hold practical value to policymakers and practitioners, encouraging flood risk adaptation measures as a choice of long-term and anticipatory disaster risk reduction strategy.
- Subject
- proetection motivation; flood risk adaptation intention; flooding experience; coping experience; PLS-SEM; informal settlements; SDG 11; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1486996
- Identifier
- uon:52021
- Identifier
- ISSN:2212-4209
- Language
- eng
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