caa a22 4500 463194810 CHVBK 20180406164919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9019-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9019-6 Hurlimann Anna Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia aut Is recycled water use risky? An Urban Australian community's perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Anna Hurlimann] The emergence of a global water crisis has seen the necessity for a sustainable approach to water management. Policies directed towards water recycling have been implemented in many regions of the world. In Australia, prolonged drought conditions in most major cities during the past decade have led to serious national calls for less drinking water to be used (Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council, 2003), and a strategic policy response from many State Governments, including bold targets for water recycling. A key consideration to the realisation of these policies is greater understanding of community attitudes to recycled water use, without which, a number of recycled water projects have failed (Hurlimann and McKay, 2004). Despite the critical nature of community attitudes, little research has been conducted, especially in relation to perception of risk, which has been found to be critical in the adoption of new technologies (Cvetkovich and Lofstedt, 1999). This paper investigates an urban Australian community's perception of risk involved with using recycled water. Key findings include: perception of risk increased as the use of recycled water became increasingly personal. Perception of risk was significantly negatively related to trust, perception of fairness and information. Trust in the Water Authority to manage risk was significantly related to perception of trust, communication and integrity of the Authority. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Attitudes nationallicence Communication nationallicence Community nationallicence Mawson Lakes nationallicence Perceptions nationallicence Recycled water nationallicence Risk nationallicence Trust nationallicence The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 83-94 0251-1088 27:1<83 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9019-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9019-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hurlimann Anna Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 83-94 0251-1088 27:1<83 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer