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The delivery of a risk assessment is now widely recognized as a first step in disaster risk management. The completion of the risk assessment marks the beginning of a longer process of broadly communicating risk information to all relevant stakeholders—in a way that is meaningful to them and fit for their purposes. There is no one right way to communicate risk; instead practitioners need to draw on a toolbox of approaches, ranging from Excel spreadsheets, maps, and simple interactive tools, to graphical representation of hazard and risk, to clear action-orientated messages from authoritative and respected voices explaining what citizens, communities, and countries can do to reduce risk. Much progress has been made in communicating risk but this is an area that needs substantial additional investment in practical and considered research.

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Aftershocks: Remodeling the Past for a Resilient Future Aftershocks: Remodeling the Past for a Resilient Future aims to provide readers with an accessible look at what would happen today if we were to experience some of the iconic disasters of the past, exploring how risk modeling can be used to analyze natural events that led to past disasters and understand how these events might impact today’s more populous and connected world. Can Studying Tweets Lead to Faster Earthquake Recovery? Twitter has always been a place to talk about what's happening around you — even if what's happening is an earthquake...

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  • 2018 Understanding Risk Forum
  • Interdisciplinary pressure cooker: Risk communication
  • Comunicación de Riesgos en UR2018 – Llamada de Solicitudes
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News

  • Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster by World Bank President
  • New World Bank Tool Enhances Access and Communication of Climate and Disaster Risk Data
  • Can Studying Tweets Lead to Faster Earthquake Recovery?
  • Launch of the Risk Assessment Reference Guide from GFDRR
  • Call for Papers: Scoping Report for an Open Risk Data and Modelling Platform
  • InaSAFE Video
  • Making Research Relevant to Avoid a Megadisaster
  • Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer Release
  • OpenDRI Newsletter launched!
  • Resilience is in Our Hand
  • Challenging innovators to find new ways to make disaster risk information accessible to all
  • GFDRR and DFID Announce Challenge Fund
  • Discussion: Visual decision support in flood management
  • 2016 Understanding Risk Forum Blogs
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  • UCL – UR2018 Risk Comms Pressure Cooker Blog
  • Reading University – UR2018 Risk Comms Pressure Cooker Blog
  • BBC Media Action – UR2018 Risk Comms Pressure Cooker Blog
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Resources

  • Moving Forward after Sendai: How Countries Want to Use Science, Evidence and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction (Journal Article)
  • Twitter as a Potential Disaster Risk Reduction Tool (Journal Article)
  • Application of Behavioral Theories to Disaster and Emergency Health Preparedness: A Systematic Review (Journal Article)
  • Understanding perceptions of changing hurricane strength along the US Gulf coast (Journal Article)
  • EOI: Development of data visualization tool/platform resilience to natural disasters (Opportunity)
  • Risk Communication Research for the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) (Opportunity)
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  • IAHS Book: Floods- from Risk to Opportunity (Publication)
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