Association between Pollution and Public Perception of Air Quality-SEQAP, a Risk Perception Study in France

Abstract

Many studies have been published in environmental perception field, including atmospheric air pollution. However, most of them only used opinion questions to quantify public perception of air quality. On the other hand, few studies linked perception of air quality and objective measurement of air pollution. The SEQAP project aims to construct and validate a scale to measure air quality perception (QAP) in order to study the relation between perception and pollution concentrations, and the representations and risk perception associated to pollution, using epidemiological and sociological approaches.