Do Current Emergency Warning Messages Encourage Readiness to Act?

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27 Aug 2019

Natural hazards provoke considerable uncertainty but community members often ‘under-react’ when confronted with messages warning them of imminent hazards. How well do current emergency warning messages encourage community members’ readiness to act on emergency instructions?

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communities

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A/Prof Dominique Greer
Dominique.greer@qut.edu.au
Dr Paula Dootson
Researcher
paula.dootson@qut.edu.au
Dr Sophie Miller
s11miller@qut.edu.au
Prof Vivienne Tippett
Researcher
vivienne.tippett@qut.edu.au

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