As climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of floods around the globe,
adaptation is increasingly vital. Besides structural measures to mitigate flood risk, non …

In the context of disaster research, trust is ubiquitous. Despite its reach across multiple
research domains, the devil is in the lack of a comprehensive understanding of how trust is …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Given the potential of modern warning technology to save lives, discovering whether it is
possible to craft mobile alerts for imminent events in a way that reduces people's tendency to …

Users' ability to retweet information has made Twitter one of the most prominent social
media platforms for disseminating emergency information during disasters. However, few …

Journalists, emergency responders, and the general public use Twitter during disasters as
an effective means to disseminate emergency information. However, there is a growing …

Emergency managers and alert and warning originators require tools to build effective
warning messages. The purpose of this research is to develop one such tool—a Warning …

Background Sending emergency messages via mobile phone text messaging can be a
promising communication tool to rapidly disseminate information and promote preventive …

Social media platforms allow emergency managers to augment traditional approaches to
crisis communication. Research on government messaging, however, disproportionately …

Abstract Information is of utmost importance to the public during disasters, especially for
those under imminent threat. Without information, and more specifically, without the right …