Weather and Climate Risk Communication

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Weather And Climate

scholarly journals Agricultural trade publications and the 2012 Midwestern U.S. drought: A missed opportunity for climate risk communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Church ◽  
Tonya Haigh ◽  
Melissa Widhalm ◽  
Silvestre Garcia de Jalon ◽  
Nicholas Babin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Missed Opportunity

The Framework for Generating Climate Risk Infographic and Applying to Risk Communication

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin Chieh Liu ◽  
Ching Pin Tung
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
Adaptation Pathway ◽  
Plan Adaptation ◽  
Strategy Planning ◽  
Composition Factors

<p>      Adaptation is an indispensable part of climate change impact, and risk assessment plays an important role between data arrangement and strategy planning. This study aims at developing a framework from risk assessment to information presentation, then applying to risk communication. This framework refers to Climate Risk Template, defining risk as to the integration of hazard, exposure and sensitivity; simultaneously, Climate Risk Template is an auxiliary tool basing on Climate Change Adaptation Six Steps(CCA6Steps), which is the systematic procedure to analyze risk and plan adaptation pathway. This study emphasized on landslide disaster as the key issue and selected community residents, roads as the protected targets. First of all, collate stimulated results of landslide potential evaluation and literature, cases, questionnaires which were probed into exposure and sensitivity. Next, establish a factors list of climate risk and giving weights to correlation factors by Entropy Method. Finally, use risk matrix to evaluate the risk value and present the results of risk assessment by infographic. For essentially helping on risk communication, this study proposes a framework to make the general public understand the causes of regional disaster risk and assists executive units to implement climate risk assessment and adaptation pathway planning. Eventually, the study will innovate a prototype of using this framework; therefore, users just have to write down the key issue, protected target and choose the composition factors of risk, then they can accomplish climate risk assessment and generate climate risk infographic by themselves.</p><p>Keywords: Climate risk template, Climate risk assessment, Risk communication, infographic</p>

Weather and Climate Risk Management in the Energy Sector

2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 785-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Troccoli ◽  
Mohammed S. Boulahya ◽  
John A. Dutton ◽  
John Furlow ◽  
Robert J. Gurney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Climate Risk Management

scholarly journals Evidence synthesis - Evaluating risk communication during extreme weather and climate change: a scoping review

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaina MacIntyre ◽  
Sanjay Khanna ◽  
Anthea Darychuk ◽  
Ray Copes ◽  
Brian Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Introduction Communicating risk to the public continues to be a challenge for public health practitioners working in the area of climate change. We conducted a scoping literature review on the evaluation of risk communication for extreme weather and climate change to inform local public health messaging, consistent with requirements under the Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS), which were updated in 2018 to include effective communication regarding climate change and extreme weather. Methods Search strategies were developed by library information specialists and used to retrieve peer-reviewed academic and grey literature from bibliographic databases (Medline, Embase, Scopus and CINAHL) and Google country specific searches, respectively. The search strategy was validated through a workshop with experts and community stakeholders, with expertise in environment, health, emergency management and risk communication. Results A total of 43 articles were included. These articles addressed issues such as: climate change (n = 22), flooding (n = 12), hurricane events (n = 5), extreme heat (n = 2), and wild fires (n = 2). Studies were predominantly from the US (n = 14), Europe (n = 6) and Canada (n = 5). Conclusion To meet the OPHS 2018, public health practitioners need to engage in effective risk communication to motivate local actions that mitigate the effects of extreme weather and climate change. Based on the scoping review, risk communication efforts during short-term extreme weather events appear to be more effective than efforts to communicate risk around climate change. This distinction could highlight a unique opportunity for public health to adapt strategies commonly used for extreme weather to climate change.

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