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Effective disaster risk communication goes beyond sharing information—it influences decisions and saves lives.

In this section, experts share lessons from the field, unpack communication challenges and offer practical insights to improve how risk messages reach and resonate with people at risk.

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People in animal shelter playing, relaxing and spending time with pets
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Eugenia Morales
Four measures to protect pets (and their owners) in disasters
From stories of animal rescues to people refusing to abandon their animals in an evacuation or returning to save them afterwards, media reports abound about owners risking their lives for their pets in disasters.
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Maria van Veldhuizen, Communications Officer at REEEP
From climate knowledge to climate resilience: Reaching the last mile

While there is a wealth of climate information available, many decision makers struggle to find what they really need to make informed decisions for a

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Rachel Westcott, Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
What comes first? Building DRR by cultivating a preceding culture of preparedness as a ‘social norm’

Climate change is the biggest public health risk of the 21st century, and threatens to adversely affect many aspects of public and environmental

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Robert Glasser, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Three ways of communicating to stop disasters happening

This past March, Peru was hit by devastating floods. Media reports led with death tolls and declarations of states of emergency. People volunteered