Gräff, Joel D. (2024) Stakeholder Approaches to Risk Communication for the Understanding of NaTech Flooding Disasters. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Flooding disasters are the most frequent disasters globally and have the most significant impact on livelihood, property and environment among all natural disasters. Increasing complexities in a multipolar world, risk factors intersect, and natural hazards can additionally cause secondary cascading disasters and technological accidents, classified as NaTech. Risks must be communicated diligently, especially where NaTech and stakeholders are diverse and numerous. Previous research highlighted the need for qualitative narratives to illustrate the risk communication needs of various stakeholders, along with understanding unique interactions through case studies. This research explores these interactions from the stakeholders’ perspective in NaTech flooding events. The stakeholders represent the views of government agencies, research institutions and (I)NGOs. Eight stakeholders were interviewed via ~45-minute semi-structured conversations, where participants chose and navigated topics. Outcomes highlight gaps in policy, lack of implementation of risk communication guidelines, issues in the media’s portrayal of risks, and understanding of stakeholder interactions in disaster events. Furthermore, stakeholders illustrated the importance of viewing the issues around risk communication in NaTech flooding incidents as issues with immediate relevance to and from climate change, socio-economic inequities, independence and abilities towards and within sectors of technological production, politics, and social and environmental resilience.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Unal, A.B. |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2024 09:50 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2024 09:50 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/386 |
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