Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 69-88Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0956247816686485
Keywords
affordability; aversion behaviours; Bandung; continuity; dimensions of access; quality; quantity; risk; water supply
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- Water and Health research programme at Deltares (the Netherlands)
- International Office of Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
- Directorate General of Higher Education (Indonesia)
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This paper explores the daily risks of households with respect to dimensions of inadequate water access and supply (quality, quantity, continuity and affordability). We describe how perceptions of risk are shaped and how households seek to reduce possible health impacts and potential economic losses through aversion behaviours. To this end, households' activities relating to water storage, treatment and usage, together with water source preference, were analysed using a qualitative approach. We developed a framework that describes actual risk, risk perceptions and aversion behaviours. Risk perceptions and the adoption of aversion behaviours of varying frequency and intensity are based on a complex interaction between personal and shared experiences that relate to water supply dimensions, socioeconomic characteristics, and social networking. Moreover, we discuss household risk management strategies and provide some recommendations aimed at improving future approaches to the study of aversion behaviours.
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