Flood risk awareness and preparedness: The role of trust in information sources

Samaddar, S. K.; Misra, Bijay Anand; Tatano, Hirokazu

doi:10.1109/icsmc.2012.6378267

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“…via a meteorological office in the UK: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk, last access: November 2019), others communicate via a civil defence mechanism (e.g. national landslide early warning in Italy; Segoni et al, 2018) or a local government office (Samaddar et al, 2012).…”

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Communicating complex forecasts: an analysis of the approach in Nepal's flood early warning system

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Abstract. Early warning systems have the potential to save lives and improve resilience. However, barriers and challenges remain in disseminating and communicating early warning information to institutional decision-makers, community members and individuals at risk, including unequal access, insufficient understanding, and inability to act on warning information. Research was undertaken to analyse and understand the current flood early warning system in Nepal, considering available data and forecasts, information flows, early warning dissemination, and decision-making for early action. Data were collected from key informant interviews, community-level questionnaires, and a national stakeholder workshop and qualitatively analysed. The availability and utilisation of simple and complex flood forecasts in Nepal, and their integration into dissemination, and decision support tools were reviewed, considering their impact on improving early action to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities to flooding. Results suggest that as Nepal continues to advance in hydro-meteorological forecasting capabilities, efforts are simultaneously needed to ensure these forecasts are more effectively communicated and disseminated.

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Communicating complex forecasts: an analysis of the approach in Nepal's flood early warning system

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“…This will provide the theoretical basis for modelling how the artificial population in Vigiflood reacts to the player's decisions in terms of communicating vigilance. (Samaddar et al 2012) show the importance of integrated flood risk management, including both structural physical measures, and appropriate communication. Indeed, individual protective actions by the population could drastically reduce costs induced by flash floods (up to 80% according to (Grothmann and Reusswig 2006)).…”

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“…Various cognitive and affective factors are also identified such as mental noise, stress, a focus on negative content, and lack of trust in the authorities (Covello and Sandman 2001;Covello 2003). For instance (Samaddar et al 2012) study in Mumbai, India shows the importance of the population's trust in the information source on the resulting risk awareness and preparedness.…”

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VigiFlood: Evaluating the Impact of a Change of Perspective on Flood Vigilance

Adam

2020

IDRiM Journal

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Emergency managers receive communication training about the importance of being 'first, right and credible', and taking into account the psychology of their audience and their particular reasoning under stress and risk. But we believe that citizens should be similarly trained about how to deal with risk communication. In particular, such messages necessarily carry a part of uncertainty since most natural risks are difficult to accurately forecast ahead of time. Yet, citizens should keep trusting the emergency communicators even after they made forecasting errors in the past. We have designed and implemented a serious game called Vigiflood, based on a real case study of flash floods hitting the South West of France in October 2018. In this game, the user changes perspective by taking the role of an emergency communicator, having to set the level of vigilance to alert the population, based on uncertain clues. Our hypothesis is that this change of perspective can improve the player's awareness of flood risk, and response to future flood vigilance announcements. We evaluated this game through an online survey where people were asked to answer a questionnaire about flood risk awareness and behavioural intentions before and after playing the game, in order to assess its impact. The results are encouraging, showing improved risk awareness, protective intentions, vigilance, and trust after playing. However, it also suggests that the current "game design" is still poor and unable to engage the general public, in particular school students. Future research will therefore address this issue.

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“…An equally important element of this communication is the credibility of resources (specifically media, web-portals, etc. ), which can fundamentally influence the public's view of the issue [53]. However, this requires more in-depth research.…”

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Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment

Titko

Sedliaková

2020

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The cost of climate change-related disasters in terms of the lives lost and the damages to the social, economic and environmental assets are predicted to be higher. Disaster risk management is one of the crucial pillars with which to face this emerging trend in order to ensure the goals of are achieved sustainable development. However, the sustainability of the disaster risk management development is also significantly more complicated in changing conditions. It is necessary to look for ways to build a disaster-resilient society. This paper focuses on exploring the possibilities of supporting the sustainability of the disaster risk management through the involvement of the general public into it. The objective of this paper is to present the results from assessing the preparedness for the disasters in the Slovak Republic with an emphasis on the changing climate and environment (from population perspective). The research is based on the exploration of the questionnaire survey's results aimed at investigating the preparedness and preventive proactive behaviour of the population against the disasters. The results suggest that the disaster risk awareness and overall disaster preparedness level is rather poor and the population is inactive. The proactive behaviour of the respondents against the disasters is partially affected by some of their personality and socio-economic characteristics; especially, the younger respondents currently incline more toward adopting the protective measures. In addition, other aspects, e.g. the negative experience with the disasters in the past have an influence on the preparedness. The possibilities of increasing the preparedness of the population and their engagement into sustainable disaster risk management system are also discussed in this paper.

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Flood risk awareness and preparedness: The role of trust in information sources

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Communicating complex forecasts: an analysis of the approach in Nepal's flood early warning system

Communicating complex forecasts: an analysis of the approach in Nepal's flood early warning system

VigiFlood: Evaluating the Impact of a Change of Perspective on Flood Vigilance

Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment

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