Decision to stay in climate-risk areas: cognitive biases and preferences in coastal Bangladesh

In the Netherlands, the extraction of natural gas from the ground has led to soil subsidence and the occurrence of earthquakes. These earthquakes cause physical damage to buildings and give rise to psychological distress. Research on the impact of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, has shown that there is a complicated relationship between place attachment, perceived risk and coping strategies. The current study, performed in the earthquake area, provides further insight into this relationship, with a focus on place attachment. The study examines whether place attachment is related to (1) the damage intensity of the neighbourhood, (2) socio-demographic characteristics, (3) cognitive and emotional characteristics and (4) coping strategies. The results show that stronger place attachment is related to higher age, lower education and place of origin in the region. Furthermore, respondents with strong place attachment more frequently indicated to be frightened by the multiple earthquakes and to expect damage to their dwelling as a consequence of future earthquakes. Nevertheless, these respondents less frequently intended to relocate than respondents with weaker place attachment. This result indicates that strong place attachment might diminish the chances of moving out despite the awareness of risk and the emotional response to the earthquake hazard.

The settlement area in RW 04 is determined as one of the priority areas that the Government of Malang City should overcome from slum problems. Slum factors in RW 04 are caused by density settlement, unlivable residential area, and environmental pollution by the community activities. Therefore, the local government creates a program to diminish the slum and to support the 100-0-100 Program as well. The effort to overcome the slum problems is done through a progam called PLPBK (Penataan Lingkungan Permukiman Berbasis Komunitas) which can affect community place attachment. Hence, the community image of RW 04 would change from a slum into a clean and beautiful residential area. The environmental transformation in RW 04 could strengthen place attachment and as a result, the people feel more comfortable, proud, and safe. This study aims to identify community place attachment in RW 04, Polehan, Malang and the analysis used is descriptive statistics. This research shows that the community would have a strong place attachment as long as the respondents have the willingness to develop place attachment through experience, intensity of social interaction, the possession of valuable object, action or effort to control the environment, the length of resident, do not migrate, and RW 04 that is able to replace the childhood memories of immigrant. The strong place attachment is affected by the respondents characteristics as well, and as a result, they tend to have willingness to live in RW 04.

We investigated the role of risk tolerance, time preference, and asthma-specific attitudes in adherence to asthma control medications. Students with persistent asthma completed an online survey on asthma beliefs, risk tolerance, and time preference (n = 47). The time preference questions measure the degree to which the individual discounts future outcomes and essentially prefers immediate gratification to delayed gratification. The risk tolerance questions indicate the individual's dislike of uncertainty about outcomes. We analyzed the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Feelings of embarrassment and concern about medication, as well as risk tolerance and time preference, were found to be significant predictors of adherence to control medication in the logistic regression. Analysis of probabilities associated with different profiles shows that at high rates of risk tolerance and discounting of future outcomes, the probability of adherence is near 0 regardless of asthma-specific attitudes. Asthma attitudes have a statistically significant effect for individuals with low rates of risk tolerance and time preference. The risk tolerance and time preferences of the target group should be considered when designing an asthma-intervention program. Individuals who strongly prefer immediate gratification over future benefits and are willing to tolerate uncertain outcomes are unlikely to adhere to controller medication, regardless of their asthma attitudes. In contrast, efforts to affect relevant attitudes will be most fruitful for individuals with low rates of risk tolerance and time preference. However, as we cannot extrapolate these results to a larger population, we must view them with caution.

Connections among Puget Sound Residents' Psychological Restoration from Natural Environments, Place Attachment, and Beliefs about Environmental Governance.

Understanding relocation in flood-prone coastal communities through the lens of place attachment

This empirical study explores the interplay between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior, within two small Norwegian communities exposed to flash flooding. Through a mixed-methods narrative approach, we found that most of our respondents exhibited positive attachment to their communities, aligning with previous studies in rural settings. Using a conceptual model of place attachment (Raymond et al. 2010), the study identified five dimensions of attachment among the respondents: place identity, place dependency, family bonding, friend bonding, and nature bonding. The most dominant narratives centered around practical ties to the area through family and place dependency, combined with symbolic attachments in the form of nature and identity. Place attachment through generational ties, closeness to nature, and access to historical knowledge influenced residents’ risk perception, here displayed as heightened awareness of flash flood-related risks. This risk awareness did however not translate directly into feeling at risk. Findings point to residents’ underestimating risk close to home, which could partially be explained by strong place attachment. Coping behavior was mainly motivated by previous hazard experiences. Place dependency and family bonding contribute to explaining the resident’s reluctancy to relocate as a coping strategy. We found that place attachment can act as both a mediator and a moderator between risk perception and coping behavior, and the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior is complex. While no clear causal relationship was established, understanding common elements in risk narratives can enhance community resilience and inform strategies to address community concerns.

This study dealt with place and home attachment of Jewish settlers in the Gaza region affected by hostilities incurring risk to the settlers’ lives. It evaluated the variables related to the settlers’ risk perception and their tendency to stay or leave their homes in a sample consisting of 156 of 947 households interviewed by telephone. The researchers evaluated how risk perception and the tendency to stay were related to demographic characteristics such as gender and length of time living in the region and to cultural characteristics such as place and home attachment, ideology, and religious faith. In spite of the dangerous environment, the settlers were found to have a strong tendency to stay in the area, related to their firm ideology of holding on to the land, profound religious faith, strong place and home attachment, and low risk perception of their situation.

Solid waste management (SWM) in most developing countries has been a source of worry for city managers and concerned residents as heaps of refuse that dot the cityscape has increase drastically and become unsightly, thereby creating the impression that concerted efforts have not been made to address the situation. Various studies undertaken in most developed countries have consistently shown that there exists a strong correlation between place attachment (PA) and pro-environmental behaviour (PEB). One of the implications of this strong correlation is that household solid waste (HHSW) have been successfully managed. While individuals residing in cities of developing countries in places such as Nigeria are known to have strong PA, contemporary literature suggests that this nexus has not impacted positively on how HHSW has been managed. In this context, therefore, a disconnect exists between the two experiences. Drawing on recent fieldwork conducted in Urora, Benin City in Nigeria, which employed both ethnographic-based observation approach and the principles of participatory research, this study sought to understand the causal factors responsible for the disconnect between PA and PEB that continue to facilitate the indiscriminate disposal of HHSW. The result suggests that factors like: (1) strong PA exhibited by residents serve only social and personal interests that can hardly translate to PEB (2) with the indigenes out-numbered by the ‘visitors’ coupled with the belief that the ‘visitors’ have a home elsewhere, cooperation and oneness among residents is not guaranteed; and, (3) given the wet season of seven months coupled with lack of drainage facilities and results in submergence this situation encourages non-challant behaviours towards waste management as the area is almost degraded, forsaken and abandoned. These issues are explored within the wider theoretical debates involving PA and PEB from a developing world context.

Living on coal: Mined-out identity, community displacement and forming of anti-coal resistance in the Most region, Czech Republic

This study analyzed the effects of unpleasant experiences in conventional swimming pools and place attachment on the intention to use ‎Sharia swimming pools. The study addresses the relevance of understanding Muslim consumer behavior in the growing halal recreation ‎sector, particularly as negative experiences, such as misalignment with religious values‎, lead to the seeking of alternative facilities that uphold sharia principles. The research aims to examine how these unpleasant experiences and the emotional and functional bonds (place attachment) influence users’ intentions to continue utilizing sharia swimming pools. Employing a ‎quantitative approach with Structural Equation Modelling-Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS), data were collected from 105 respondents ‎who are users or prospective users of sharia swimming pools. The results demonstrate that unpleasant experiences in conventional pools ‎significantly increase the intention to switch to sharia swimming pools (path coefficient = 0.405). At the same time, place attachment ‎also positively and significantly affects relationship continuity intention (path coefficient = 0.411). Furthermore, a strong correlation was ‎found between unpleasant experiences and place attachment (path coefficient = 0.774). The findings suggest that both negative experiences and strong place attachment are critical drivers of loyalty and sustained use of sharia-compliant facilities. The practical implication is that managers of sharia swimming pools should prioritize service quality and address users' emotional and spiritual needs to foster long-term relationships.

Spatial routinization and a ‘secure base’ in displacement processes: Understanding place attachment through the security-exploratory cycle and urban ontological security frameworks

We are at risk, and so what? Place attachment, environmental risk perceptions and preventive coping behaviours

Research indicates that local energy projects may disrupt different dimensions of people's sense of place, such as place attachment, causing local resistance within a community. Place-based concepts have therefore been extensively studied in social energy science to explain resistance to energy projects. However, what has been less studied is the integration of place-based concepts within a value-based framework to explain resistance. We present a conceptual framework wherein place attachment enhances people's value (utility) of a natural area by generating a person-place relationship. The framework bridges the concepts of values and resistance against wind energy, predicting higher losses of values from a natural area transformed into a wind energy site when a stronger place attachment is present. To test the conceptual framework, we conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to assess the role of place attachment in the valuation of impacts of a place-specific wind energy project. Consistent with the framework, we find that place attachment (i) enlarges people's stated compensation to accept wind energy and (ii) increases wind energy resistance by leading to a higher propensity to choose the no-wind farm status quo option systematically across choice scenarios. Our results suggest that wind energy resistance should be recognized as a rational response when people value environmental amenities adversely affected by potential energy sites.

The topic of the article concerns the issue of place attachment and its determinants. An analysis of place attachment was performed in terms of place identity and place dependence (Williams, Vaske, 2003). Moreover, links between place attachment and selected geographical (size and type of place, geographical region), demographic (age, sex) and psychological (satisfaction with life) variables were investigated. The study group included 759 respondents: 398 women and 361 men, aged 18-83 years, residing in 74 places in the Silesian Province, a region in Poland: in 10 sub-regions in the Upper Silesian conurbation and outside the conurbation. The study used the Place Attachment Scale (Williams, Vaske, 2003), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, Griffin, 1985) and a personal information section containing questions regarding place of permanent residence, sex and age. Results showed that subjects residing in smaller and non-industrial places had a stronger place attachment than those residing in larger and industrial cities. People living outside the Upper Silesian conurbation were more strongly attached to their place of residence in terms of place identity than those residing in the Upper Silesian conurbation. People living in the Zagłębie (industrial) sub-region were more strongly attached in terms of place dependence than those residing in the Bytom sub-region (devastated with high unemployment). Satisfaction with life was positively correlated with place attachment. Older subjects were more strongly attached to their place of residence. Men and women did not differ in the sense of place attachment and life satisfaction.

Mobility can shape climate risks in urban destination areas, which are not equally experienced. Gender, migrant status, and factors such as age, parental status, and economic conditions often intersect to influence how migrants navigate and respond to climate hazards. Yet, the gendered and intersectional dimensions of climate risks and resilience, along with their underlying material, institutional and social determinants, remain underexplored in internal mobility contexts. This study draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted in Mongla, a growing destination area in Bangladesh, to examine how these determinants influence climate risks and resilience among migrants through a gendered and intersectional lens. The findings suggest that newly arrived migrant women face heightened vulnerability to climate hazards due to overlapping constraints that limit their resilience upon arrival. Power dynamics and social differentiation influence unequal access to resources and services. In particular, recently arrived migrant women often have fewer and limited access to information, institutional aid, or social support, which are critical for responding to climate hazards. By shifting the analytical attention to urban destination areas, this study offers a gendered understanding of climate risks and resilience in Bangladesh, providing empirical insights to inform more equitable policies to support internal migrants in urban destinations.