This article reviews the main insights from selected literature on risk perception, particularly
in connection with natural hazards. It includes numerous case studies on perception and …

Participation has emerged as an appropriate approach for enhancing natural resources
management. However, despite long experimentation with participation, there are still …

In the past years, stakeholder engagement has become more important in flood risk
management. On the one hand stakeholder engagement is often declared as a better way of …

A drought may be defined as the temporal lack of water caused necessarily but not
exclusively by an abnormal climatic situation which may affect negatively the population, the …

Social capacity building for natural hazards is a topic increasingly gaining relevance not
only for so-called developing countries but also for European welfare states which are …

In recent years stakeholder participation has become a popular topic in flood management.
Little is known about how and under which circumstances local stakeholders initiate and …

Crisis and disaster research has extensively contributed to theoretical, conceptual,
methodological and empirical advances in the understanding of resilience, vulnerability …

Although both improved risk communication and the building of social capacities have been
advocated as vital ways to increase societies' resilience towards natural hazards across the …

This report is a revised version of the Work Package (WP) 5 report on Risk Communication
originally completed in May 2010. In the logic of the CapHaz-Net project it fulfils a specific …

Land management includes the actions of different stakeholder groups at different scales,
from local measures to regional land use strategies to land use policies. For sustainable …