Different people handle risk in different ways, and the current lack of understanding about this heterogeneity in risk behaviour makes it difficult to intervene more effectively in risk-prone communities.
This book offers new and long awaited insights on how the poorest and most vulnerable people in urban societies, cope with an increasingly risky environment. Drawing on first-hand fieldwork in an urban flood-prone slum in Indonesias' capital, the megacity Jakarta which is one of the most vulnerable areas worldwide in terms of exposure to natural hazards, the book contributes a rare ‘view from below' to the theoretical debates about human risk behaviour.
The book questions dominant ideas of experts about what it means to act rationally and safely in a context of risk. It proposes a radically new idea to understand what drives human behaviour in the face of risk by arguing that human risk behaviour cannot be explained by the risk itself, but instead by factors that seem unrelated to the risk at first sight, such as people's trust in authorities and aid-institutions, unequal power structures that limit or advantage people, and the problems and dilemmas that people encounter in their daily lives.
Through powerful stories and case studies, as well as an incisive theoretical point of view, the book gives policymakers and scholars of risk and disaster a categorization that helps to come to grips with heterogeneous risk-behaviour and that helps to analyse and understand why different people respond differently to a single risk-event.
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