Disaster Risk Communication: Dialogues for Reducing Extensive Risk

Author(s)
Pelling, M.
Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
21 Jun 2013
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Comms, media & information, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disaster risk reduction

How do scientists, practitioners and people at risk make decisions, individually and collectively? Social theory, psychology and learning theory have all addressed this question but somewhat independently. This has led to a number of discontinuities in the analysis of risk communication and perception and gaps in research and practioner activity (and funding). The result is a number of unanswered questions.