Conclusions of the Third European Conference on Risk Perception, Behaviour, Management and Response – ECRP22

The Third ECRP conference in June 2022 in Berlin, Germany, has gathered again our two communities, the Risk Perception and Behaviour Survey of Surveyors (Risk-SoS) and the H2020-DRS-01 Cluster on risk perception and adaptive behaviour (a grouping of several Horizon Europe – Disaster Resilient Societies projects, most notably RESILOC, BUILDERS, CORE, ENGAGE, LINKS, RiskPACC). One of the key challenges for risk, vulnerability and resilience research is how to address the role of risk perceptions and how perceptions influence behaviour. It remains unclear why people fail to act adaptively to reduce future losses, even when there is ever-richer information available on natural and human-made hazards (flood, drought, etc.). The current fragmentation of the field makes it an uphill battle to cross-validate the results of existing independent case studies. This, in turn, hinders comparability and transferability across scales and contexts and hampers recommendations for policy and risk management. The ECRP conference cycle aims to contribute to improve the ability of researchers in the field to work together and build cumulative knowledge.