Disaster risk communication

This study assesses cell broadcast alert messages in France, showing gaps between recommended practice and real use, and highlighting how clearer, more complete message content can improve public warning and protective action.

Most emergency alerts and warnings are not provided in languages spoken by Indigenous peoples, placing them at greater risk during fires, floods, and other disasters.

This study examines how rainfall forecast errors during Typhoon Khanun shaped public emotions online, showing that underestimated and overestimated forecasts can increase anxiety, confusion and fatigue in risk communication.

This article examines emergency communication in the Pacific, highlighting how national broadcasters are relied on during disasters but often lack the resources, infrastructure and formal support needed to stay on air.

This study examines how cultural worldviews shape support for climate and biodiversity policies in Japan, finding that biodiversity conservation may face less worldview-driven resistance than climate action.

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.