Risk Communication and Resilience
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:20 PM
Theme: Climate Justice
Sponsor Group(s):
Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group
, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Joslyn Zale
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Chairs(s):
Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Description:
Risk communication, defined as the exchange of information among stakeholders about a disaster with the intent to help people take risk reduction actions, is a central part of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Resilience is a process that increases capacity through the proactive and empowered engagement of stakeholders so that disaster-impacted communities can quickly return to a pre-disaster state or even attain better-than-pre-disaster states, thereby contributing to sustainability. While risk communication is one aspect of building resilience, community resilience also can be improved by (i) increasing public awareness of risk and its role in risk reduction, (ii) assessing risk, (iii) increasing stakeholder participation in policy preparation and implementation, and (iv) sharing local knowledge and experiences among communities. The collective experience of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Florence indicate that social media plays an increasingly important role in disseminating information for preparation, response, and rescue. In light of these and other recent disasters, it is timely to discuss what actions should be taken to integrate citizen science, crowdsourcing, and risk communication in building resilient communities. Research topics include, but are not limited to:
• The effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of WEA and mobile devices in increasing risk communication coverage.
• The role of social media in increasing citizen participation and the issues and concerns expressed by emergency managers and the public regarding use of social media in risk communication and resilience building efforts.
• Proactive approaches to resilience (risk assessment, risk management, risk communication) that have been effective in reducing hazard impacts.
• How can social media be used to bolster emergency preparedness? How does social media influence resilience and recovery?
• What is the future of resilience-based research? Is there a difference between individual resilience and community resilience? Finally, is it possible for global society to reach a level of resilience where the impacts of hazards are negligible? To what extent climate justice influences the individual vs community resilience?
Presentation(s), if applicable
David Cochran, School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences; Modeling Social Vulnerability along the Mississippi Gulf Coast |
Harrison Cole, Pennsylvania State University; Tactile Maps for Accessible Flood Mitigation Planning |
Wen-Ching Chuang, ; Cumulative effects of climate change, inequality, and exposure to hazardous wastes in coastal areas |
David Retchless, Texas A&M University at Galveston; Effects of Temporal Framing and Hazard Experience on Receptivity to Hurricane Risk Messages: Lessons from a Survey of Gulf Coast Residents |
Kelsey Ellis, University of Tennessee; Overlapping Tornado and flash flood (TORFF) warnings: Examining their climatology and residents' perceptions in the Southeast |
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Risk Communication and Resilience
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Bandana Kar - yourbandana75@gmail.com
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