This qualitative study is a part of the research project The insurance industry and climate change: Short- and long-term consequences of home owner's understandings of risk, ability to pay and risk behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to get a deeper understanding of how homeowners’ construct risk of climate change in relation their own homes. Interviews with 27 households including 35 individuals in five regions in Sweden have been made. The interviewees live in one family houses; some in old ones and others in new built houses, some live at the countryside and others in cities. The thematic narrative analysis of the results reveal that social categories such as gender, class, age, educational level and geographic setting intersect in the construction of risk. Several different narratives are discovered in the material, in which the construction of risk of climate change in relation to the homes of the narrators is made in altered ways.
Finansieras av Stiftelsen Länsförsäkringsbolagens Forskningsfond