9 NORMATIVE PERCEPTIONS TO BROADEN ITS GENERAL ACCEPTANCE THE WN...

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.