Perception of environmental insurance risk vs. implementation of control measures in organizations managed according to ISO 14001:2015 in Poland
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Keywords

environmental risk
environmental insurance
environmental management system ISO 14001

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Lemkowska, M. (2021). Perception of environmental insurance risk vs. implementation of control measures in organizations managed according to ISO 14001:2015 in Poland. Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny I Socjologiczny, 83(4), 187–203. https://doi.org/10.14746/rpeis.2021.83.4.13

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Abstract

The numerous studies of risk perception to date have been focused on three different areas of the subject. Firstly, researchers have aimed at the identification of risk perception determinants, secondly, they have created recommendations on how to communicate the risk to society, and finally they have analysed the relationships between risk perception measures and the means of risk control implemented in organizations. The last indicated research area is complemented by the following paper. On the basis of data derived from online interviews it was concluded that the higher the assessment of the measures of environmental insurance risk perception, the more frequently organizations implemented selected means of risk control in the environmental management system according to ISO 14001 (EMS ISO 14001). The largest number of statistically significant dependencies were observed in the area of variables which describe the informative potential of EMS ISO 14001 (informative potential variables) and those which directly determine the volume of environmental insurance risk (the volume of risk variables). Simultaneously, not all categories of risk perception measures are equally related to the frequency of risk control means implementation. A particularly large number of statistically significant correlations were identified for the following variable: the evaluation of the likelihood of the occurrence of environmental damage.

https://doi.org/10.14746/rpeis.2021.83.4.13
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Funding

This research was undertaken as part of the project: Private insurance and environmental management systems complying with ISO 14001 as tools of environmental risk’s management – analysis of relations and was funded by a grant of National Science Centre, Poland (2016/23/D/ HS4/02654).

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