KAMMERBAUER Mark

Risk communication and risk perception: lessons from the 2011 floods in Brisbane, Australia/ Mark Kammerbauer and John Minnery - 2019

Risk communication and risk perception are critical factors in disaster management. Governments at all levels play a part in communicating risk, whereas the perception of risk entails active roles by community participants, including potential and actual victims of disasters. The article concludes with some recommendations to avoid the misinterpretation of warning information in relation to environmental cues and in promoting adequate responses.


DISASTER--FLOOD
DISASTER RESPONSE
RISK PERCEPTION