5.9 Normative Perceptions
To broaden its general acceptance the WN incorporates as many of Belgium’s citizens’ natural risk
circumstances as possible. In 2005, the scheme it was expanded to cover a wide range of perils
beyond flooding including: earthquake, the overflow of public sewers, and landslide or subsidence
(Faure and Bruggeman, 2007). Expanding the risk community in this way is regarded as a key
reason that it is politically acceptable and socially legitimate national compensation system.
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