Essays in Environmental Management and Economics: Public Health, Risk and Strategic Environmental Assessment
Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ability to take them into account in decision-making and adapt to new circumst...
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ftunivgoeteborg:oai:gupea.ub.gu.se:2077/52580 2023-10-29T02:38:59+01:00 Essays in Environmental Management and Economics: Public Health, Risk and Strategic Environmental Assessment Slunge, Daniel 2017-08-18 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2077/52580 eng eng Studies in Environmental Management and Economics 3 Paper 1: Slunge, D., and Boman, A. (2017). Learning to Live with Ticks? The Role of Exposure and Risk Perceptions in Protective Behaviour Against Tick-Borne Diseases Paper 2: Slunge, D., Sterner, T., and Adamowicz, W. (2017). Valuation When Baselines Are Changing: Tick-borne Disease Risk and Recreational Choice Paper 3: Slunge, D. (2015). The Willingness to Pay for Vaccination against Tick-Borne Encephalitis and Implications for Public Health Policy: Evidence from Sweden. PloS one, 10(12), e0143875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143875 Paper 4: Slunge, D., and Loayza, F. (2012). Greening Growth through Strategic Environmental Assessment of Sector Reforms Public Administration and Development, 32(3), 245-261. doi:10.1002/pad.1623 Paper 5: Slunge, D., and Tran, T. T. H. (2014). Challenges to institutionalizing strategic environmental assessment: The case of Vietnam. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2014.05.005 978-91-88199-22-5 (PDF) 978-91-88199-21-8 (Printed) http://hdl.handle.net/2077/52580 risk risk perception public health strategic environmental assessment institutions governance willingness to pay protective behaviour vector-borne diseases ticks TBE tick-borne encephalitis Lyme borreliosis climate change Text Doctoral thesis Doctor of Philosophy 2017 ftunivgoeteborg https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.014387510.1002/pad.162310.1016/j.eiar.2014.05.005 2023-10-04T21:19:47Z Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ability to take them into account in decision-making and adapt to new circumstances. By analysing how people perceive and manage risks individually and collectively, this thesis aims to improve the understanding of how these environmentally related welfare costs may be reduced. Papers 1–3 focus on risk perceptions and decision-making at the individual level and concern how people perceive and manage risks in relation to the increasing incidence of Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). The empirical analysis is based on a survey with 1500 randomly selected respondents in Sweden. Papers 4 and 5 focus on risk assessment and decision-making at the collective level and concern how strategic environmental assessments are used to manage environmental risks in low- and middle-income countries. The empirical analysis is based on interviews with stakeholders involved in environmental assessments of policy reforms. Paper 1: Learning to Live with Ticks? The Role of Exposure and Risk Perceptions in Protective Behaviour Against Tick-Borne Diseases We analyse the role of risk perceptions and exposure for five protective measures against tick bites and the related diseases TBE and LB. We find a strong positive association between exposure and checking the skin for ticks, but no or weak associations between exposure and the use of protective clothing, tucking trousers into socks, the use of repellent or avoidance of tall grass in areas with ticks. Paper 2: Valuation When Baselines Are Changing: Tick-borne Disease Risk and Recreational Choice We estimate willingness to pay to avoid recreational areas with ticks, LB and TBE risk. In northern Sweden, where the presence of ticks is relatively new, the willingness to pay to avoid risk is significantly higher than in southern Sweden, where ticks ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Northern Sweden University of Gothenburg: GUPEA (Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive) PLOS ONE 10 12 e0143875 |
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Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ability to take them into account in decision-making and adapt to new circumstances. By analysing how people perceive and manage risks individually and collectively, this thesis aims to improve the understanding of how these environmentally related welfare costs may be reduced. Papers 1–3 focus on risk perceptions and decision-making at the individual level and concern how people perceive and manage risks in relation to the increasing incidence of Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). The empirical analysis is based on a survey with 1500 randomly selected respondents in Sweden. Papers 4 and 5 focus on risk assessment and decision-making at the collective level and concern how strategic environmental assessments are used to manage environmental risks in low- and middle-income countries. The empirical analysis is based on interviews with stakeholders involved in environmental assessments of policy reforms. Paper 1: Learning to Live with Ticks? The Role of Exposure and Risk Perceptions in Protective Behaviour Against Tick-Borne Diseases We analyse the role of risk perceptions and exposure for five protective measures against tick bites and the related diseases TBE and LB. We find a strong positive association between exposure and checking the skin for ticks, but no or weak associations between exposure and the use of protective clothing, tucking trousers into socks, the use of repellent or avoidance of tall grass in areas with ticks. Paper 2: Valuation When Baselines Are Changing: Tick-borne Disease Risk and Recreational Choice We estimate willingness to pay to avoid recreational areas with ticks, LB and TBE risk. In northern Sweden, where the presence of ticks is relatively new, the willingness to pay to avoid risk is significantly higher than in southern Sweden, where ticks ... |
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Studies in Environmental Management and Economics 3 Paper 1: Slunge, D., and Boman, A. (2017). Learning to Live with Ticks? The Role of Exposure and Risk Perceptions in Protective Behaviour Against Tick-Borne Diseases Paper 2: Slunge, D., Sterner, T., and Adamowicz, W. (2017). Valuation When Baselines Are Changing: Tick-borne Disease Risk and Recreational Choice Paper 3: Slunge, D. (2015). The Willingness to Pay for Vaccination against Tick-Borne Encephalitis and Implications for Public Health Policy: Evidence from Sweden. PloS one, 10(12), e0143875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143875 Paper 4: Slunge, D., and Loayza, F. (2012). Greening Growth through Strategic Environmental Assessment of Sector Reforms Public Administration and Development, 32(3), 245-261. doi:10.1002/pad.1623 Paper 5: Slunge, D., and Tran, T. T. H. (2014). Challenges to institutionalizing strategic environmental assessment: The case of Vietnam. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2014.05.005 978-91-88199-22-5 (PDF) 978-91-88199-21-8 (Printed) http://hdl.handle.net/2077/52580 |
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