Towards protective action: effective risk and warning communication during natural hazards – final project report
This report captures key activities, outcomes, and impact of work conducted across the three research packages with the aim of developing evidence-based strategies that motivate appropriate protective action and support informed decision-making during natural hazards:
- Encouraging protective action and enhancing trust with multi-agency risk and warning communication strategies.
- Overcoming ambiguity: conflict between emergency warning messages and socio-environmental cues.
- Optimising emergency warning messages to encourage readiness to act.
This project provides an evidence base for warning message design and community responses. The translation of these findings into utilisation and impacts is an ongoing process that will continue beyond the formal end of the research, in areas including:
- Contribution to the Australian warning system;
- Doctrine for emergency communication;
- Examining conflicting and consistent cues;
- Managing conflicting cues;
- Readiness to act and warning optimisation; and
- Industry and government engagement.