Communication

Alert and Warning

• Lessons from Communication Challenges during the October 2020 Derecho Event in Iowa
• Lessons Learned: Texas Inadvertently Issues Amber Alert for Chucky Doll (Route Fifty, February 2021)

Risk Communication

• Romeo & Juliet In Rwanda: How A Soap Opera Sought To Change A Nation (NPR, July 13, 2020): This piece explains how creative risk communication methods are much more successful given communication challenges that some audiences present.
• We’re Talking About Vaccines All Wrong (The Atlantic, July 30, 2021): ” Now, as the Delta variant threatens a fourth wave, more and more public figures have begun to focus on the other half of this equation: increasing the social pressure and repercussions that come with remaining unvaccinated.”
• Natural Hazards Center guide Principles of Risk Communication (October 2020)
• Natural Hazards Center guide Risk Communications Involving Vulnerable Populations (October 2020)
• Public Opinion (1922, Walter Lippmann) – This book provides significant insight, even 100 years after its publication, into the ways that individuals and policy-makers process the information they receive.

Lessons Learned

• The mayor of Colorado City, TX resigned after making insensitive comments about constituents requiring assistance during the February 2021 extreme cold event (Washington Post, 2/17/2021)