Published works

This project plan draws on three years of interdisciplinary research and end-userengagement that derived evidence-based insights into risk and warning communication during the response and early recovery phases of natural hazards. The research (both completed and in-progress) examines existing and modified communication to community members and business owners that maybe affected by natural hazards. Our research findings have been shared with end-users through AFAC Committees, invited presentations, private meetings, conferences, workshops and translated into practice via audits of agency messages. The original BNHCRC project (2013-2017) focused on the pre-decisional processes of community members and business owners, particularly their exposure to, attention to, and comprehension of emergency warning messages in the response and early recovery phase of multiple hazards. This project (2017-2020) builds on that knowledge and focuses on how the inputs into the pre-decisional process — environmental cues, social cues, information sources, channel access and preference, warning messages and receiver characteristics — inform protective action during the response and early recovery phases of natural hazards.