In recent years, policy makers worldwide have begun to acknowledge the potential value of
insights from psychology and behavioral economics into how people make decisions. These …

This review briefly examines the vast range of techniques used to communicate risk
assessments arising from statistical analysis. After discussing essential psychological and …

Local government has a crucial role to play in climate change adaptation, both delivering
adaptation strategies devised from above and coordinating bottom-up action. This paper …

Humanitarian disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan (SE Asia, 2013) and the Horn of Africa
drought (2011–2012) are examples of natural hazards that were predicted, but where …

This article surveys the history and current state of the art of visualization in meteorology,
focusing on visualization techniques and tools used for meteorological data analysis. We …

Uncertainty represented in visualizations is often ignored or misunderstood by the non-
expert user. The National Hurricane Center displays hurricane forecasts using a track …

Risk communication plays an increasingly central role in flood risk management, but there is
a variety of conflicting advice about what does–and should–get transmitted, why, how, and …

Today's ensemble weather prediction systems provide reliable and sharp probabilistic
forecasts—yet they are still rarely communicated to outside users because of two main …

A significant proportion of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to extreme
climatic conditions, hence there is a high demand for climate information. In response to this …

This paper focuses on how scientific uncertainties about future peak flood flows and sea
level rises are accounted for in long term strategic planning processes to adapt inland and …