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Understanding Public Risk Concerns: An investigation into the social perception, interpretation and communication of tree health risks

了解公众风险担忧：对树木健康风险的社会认知、解释和沟通的调查

基本信息

批准号：
BB/L012308/1
负责人：
Clive Potter
金额：
$ 78.37万
依托单位：
Imperial College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FL012308%2F1
关键词：
Understanding Public Risk Concerns investigation

项目摘要

The UK's trees, woods and forests are currently threatened by a range of invasive pests and pathogens, many of them introduced through the international trade in plants and trees. While the risk posed by these introductions to wildllife, accessible spaces and cherished landscapes have been known to about in offical circles for some time, it was arguably not until the introduction of the ash dieback pathogen to the UK in autumn 2012 that the public became much more widely involved. Extensive media coverage, social media commentary and the growing involvement of communities in efforts to monitor the spread of this disease and to detect the arrival of other pests and pathogens, all seem to suggest that tree health and its future safeguarding have become issues of public concern. This shift in the debate is an important development which needs to be harnessed by government, its agencies and various stakeholders in order to build support for stronger measures to prevent further introductions and to effectively manage those that are now estbalished. Despite this, we currently know little about the true nature of this concern and the extent to which it is likely to be sustained once media reporting of particular outbreaks declines. We know even less about the extent to which more risk-aware members of the public will be motivated to change their behaviour (for instance by buying plants only from accredited sources or reducing their demand for instant woody landscapes requiring the importation of large trees from outside the UK). This research will look at three recent outbreaks for which we have documentary and other evidence of public concern in order to assess the extent to which different sorts of people known to have had some sort of exposure to, or engagement with, our case study outbreaks (volunteers, garden and woodland visitors, local residents) currently recognise pest and disease risks to tree health, whether there is any evidence that their risk perceptions have changed over the course of outbreaks by being exposed to media coverage and risk communications from government and others and how far this makes them more or less willing to make behavioural changes.

英国的树木、森林和森林目前受到一系列入侵性害虫和病原体的威胁，其中许多是通过植物和树木的国际贸易引入的。虽然这些引入野生动物、可到达的空间和珍贵的景观所带来的风险在官方圈子里已经知道了一段时间，但直到2012年秋天将白蜡树枯梢病病原体引入英国，公众才开始更广泛地参与进来。媒体的广泛报道、社会媒体的评论以及社区越来越多地参与监测这种疾病的传播和发现其他害虫和病原体的到来，所有这些似乎都表明，树木的健康及其未来的保护已成为公众关注的问题。辩论的这种转变是一个重要的事态发展，需要政府、其机构和各利益攸关方加以利用，以便为更强有力的措施提供支持，以防止进一步引入，并有效管理目前已确立的措施。尽管如此，我们目前对这种担忧的真正性质知之甚少，一旦媒体对特定疫情的报道减少，这种担忧可能会持续到何种程度。我们甚至不知道更多有风险意识的公众成员会在多大程度上被激励去改变他们的行为（例如，只从经过认证的来源购买植物，或者减少他们对需要从英国以外进口大树的即时木质景观的需求）。本研究将着眼于最近的三次爆发，我们有文件和其他公众关注的证据，以评估已知不同类型的人在某种程度上接触或参与了我们的案例研究爆发（志愿者，花园和林地游客，当地居民）目前认识到病虫害对树木健康的风险。是否有证据表明，在疫情期间，由于接触了媒体报道以及政府和其他方面的风险沟通，他们的风险认知发生了变化，这在多大程度上使他们或多或少愿意做出行为改变。