Disaster Managers’ Perception of Effective Visual Risk Communication for General Public

Conference paper (2012)

Authors

M.K.M. Charriere

T.A. Bogaard

E. Mostert

Department

Water Management () (TU Delft)

Disaster management User requirements Best practices Public safety Geo-information Modelling and visualusation

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13-12-2012

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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management: Beste Practices, Enschede, The Netherlands, 13-14 December 2012

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Department

Water Management

Abstract

Risk communication is one of the measures that should be implemented to increase the awareness and preparedness of the general public in order to attain disaster risk reduction. Among the various forms that can be used in communication campaigns, visualizations are appropriate to disseminate information about spatial phenomena such as natural hazards. In order to be effective, communication campaigns should be designed according to the specificities of the targeted audience. Risk and disaster managers are seen as a source of information about the latter as their tasks put them in direct contact with the general public and they need to communicate risks. Hence it is assumed that investigating their perception on the informative needs of the general public can help to design effective visual risk communication campaigns and to evaluate them.

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