NOAA Practitioner Guide on Risk Communication and Behavior Research

This presentation will highlight the key findings of a new NOAA practitioner guide on risk communication and behavior research.  Social scientists from across NOAA have spent the last several years assembling the report, compiling insights from over 250 journal articles, meta-analyses and other agency reports, and collating them by weather hazard (e.g., tornado, flash flood) for ease of reference.  The report represents a first step at accumulating this knowledge and translating its contents for application in the meteorological community.  In the presentation, members of the writing team will provide an overview of identified risk communication best practices, as well as some areas of active research.  They will also highlight a new, online repository that contains an annotated bibliography of all the materials they used to create the report, which includes the key findings and methodologies of each study.  The academic community is encouraged to visit this online repository and submit additions to it; while 250 articles is a substantial amount, the review still contains notable gaps, and the team would like to crowdsource its improvement for the benefit of the entire weather community.