Disaster risk communication

Forest fires will continue, meaning we need ongoing investment in prevention, land management and firefighting resources. But we also need to pay more attention to human behaviour.

This operational guidance provides direction for designing and implementing people-centred, inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems that effectively reach and protect mobile populations and other groups affected by changing locations or circumstances

This study compares media coverage of Spain’s 1982 Tous dam disaster, showing how national and regional newspapers framed the event through human impact, economic losses and growing attention to political and institutional responsibility.

UNICEF activated U-Report as a tool for mass communication to raise awareness and share life-saving information with young people.

This study examined how personal disaster experience, community communication, and media-based disaster comparison shape farmers' risk perception and planting intentions in the Hetao Irrigation District.

This position paper examines how "quality" should be understood in multilingual crisis translation, arguing that textual accuracy alone is an insufficient measure of a good translation in high-stakes emergency contexts.

As people across the UK feel the effects of what could be one of the longest-lasting heatwaves since 1976, communities around the world are also suffering from periods of extreme heat.

This opinion piece argues that mistrust in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is rooted less in misinformation than in histories of conflict, neglect and unequal care, calling for locally led, trust-based public health action.