Understanding Homeowners' Preferences and Motivations towards Public-Private Flood Protection

Climate change is intensifying severe weather and flood hazards, putting riverfront residents at growing risk. Although existing public flood defences like dikes and nature-based solutions offer protection, recent events like those in Limburg in 2021 highlight the need to address flood risk at the homeowner level. With the expectation that...

How a changing climate is changing behavior: household adaptation to floods

Floods appear in many of the world's oldest stories (i.e. Noah and the Arc in the Abrahamic religions, Manu in Hinduism, and the Gun-Yu myth in Chinese mythology). When observed historically, they often have an element of mysticism about them, symbolizing eradication and rebirth. In the present, however, there is little that is mystical about...

Flood resilience of coastal communities in Jakarta - Indonesia: An exploratory agent-based study on emergence of flood adaptation and migration behaviour under various socio-environmental policy conditions

Climate change is happening and has an increasingly great impact on nature, ecosystems, biodiversity and human society. To reduce adverse consequences of hazards for current and future generations, one must understand how adaptation behavior of civil societies could develop itself over time, interact with its environment and effect its ecosystem...

Private Flood Adaptation and Social Networks: Using Agent-based Modelling to Explore the Effects of Private Flood Adaptation Policies in Presence of Social Networks and Information Diffusion

Climate is changing. It is widely accepted that irrespective of the emission reductions efforts, adaptation to the already committed climate change is a must in the coming decades. Flooding is one of the most devastating climate-induced hazards, calling for adaptation across scales: from government-led adaptation (e.g. dikes), to personal...

Role of household climate change adaptation in reducing coastal flood risk: The case of Shanghai

Climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of floods - the most devastating and costly climate-induced hazard. Government adaptations such as dikes or beach nourishments are important, yet insufficient in the face of worsening hazards. They reduce the hazard probability, but the local actions at the household level determine the...

Uncertainty in individual risk judgments associates with vulnerability and curtailed climate adaptation

Risk assessments are key for the effective management of potential environmental threats. Across probabilistic phenomena, climate change is an exemplar of paramount uncertainties. These uncertainties have been embraced in supporting governments’ decisions; yet receive scarce attention when studying individual behavior. Analyzing a survey...

Drivers and impediments for cyber insurance adoption among Dutch SMEs

Cyber security is getting more attention in the last decades. Unfortunately, the 100% cyber security protection is impractical and impossible, and therefore, we need to consider other cyber risk management strategies. One of them is cyber insurance, but its adoption has been slow in Europe and even more among SMEs. This thesis presents a...