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Practical Action involved three of these communities in mapping flood risk and helped set up community flooding brigades which alert people via word of mouth. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Practical Action helped set up community flooding brigades

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2 months ago
In flood-prone regions community participation has been lifesaving. 0.900

👤 Miluska Ordoñez 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Social Science

Simplified: Community participation has been lifesaving in flood-prone regions

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2 months ago
In Peru, climate change is worsening flood risk including due to glacial retreat and in 2023, devastating floods left over 800,000 people in need of assistance. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Safety , Geography

Simplified: Climate change is worsening flood risk in Peru and in 2023 floods left over 800000 people needing assistance

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2 months ago
Bangladesh also has a large number of volunteers – half of them women – who patrol streets with megaphones to disseminate the warnings and go door-to-door to help and encourage people to evacuate. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Bangladesh has many volunteers who disseminate warnings and encourage evacuation

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2 months ago
My friends and I at the Forest Service look forward to seeing you on the Fourth of July to celebrate our Nation’s Independence Day. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Informational

Simplified: The Forest Service looks forward to seeing you on the Fourth of July to celebrate Independence Day

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2 months ago
Its approach includes text messages, radio announcements and thousands of formal shelters which double up as schools and community centres. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Communication

Simplified: Bangladesh's approach includes text messages radio announcements and shelters

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2 months ago
Bangladesh has been especially praised for developing an advanced early warning system with relatively few resources. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Geography

Simplified: Bangladesh developed an advanced early warning system with few resources

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2 months ago
Speech-based warnings (face-to-face, via radio, TV or telephone) were more effective than sirens, text alerts, websites and social media. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: Speech-based warnings were more effective than sirens text alerts websites and social media

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2 months ago
A 2021 review of flood warnings found that word of mouth warnings, delivered for example via door knocking, transmitted a greater sense of urgency and authority and made recipients more likely to foll... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: Word of mouth warnings transmitted a greater sense of urgency and authority

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2 months ago
This is especially important in rural areas which may be harder to reach via official channels. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Geography

Simplified: Community connections are especially important in rural areas

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2 months ago
Be prepared to “pack out” whatever you “pack in.” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Informational

Simplified: You should pack out whatever you pack in

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2 months ago
Community connections have proven crucial in ensuring people act appropriately when floods and other disasters hit. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Social Science

Simplified: Community connections are crucial in ensuring people act appropriately during disasters

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2 months ago
We should depend on the community more, because not only are we getting the warnings out, but there's also increased trust. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: Depend on the community more for warnings because of increased trust

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2 months ago
They can be language brokers. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication

Simplified: Community members can be language brokers

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2 months ago
Community members and word of mouth can help disseminate crucial information in multiple languages. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: Community members and word of mouth can help disseminate crucial information in multiple languages

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2 months ago
Pick up any garbage from where you celebrate and put it in the nearest recycling or garbage receptacle. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Blog Post

Simplified: Pick up garbage and put it in the nearest recycling or garbage receptacle

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2 months ago
"Aviso", the translation of "advisory", communicated more urgency than both the "watch" and "warning" translations. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Research

Simplified: "Aviso" communicated more urgency than "watch" and "warning" translations

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2 months ago
They consistently rated "aviso", the translation of "warning" used by US organisations responsible for sending out alerts, as less urgent than many other alternatives. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Research

Simplified: US Spanish speakers rated "aviso" as less urgent than other alternatives

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2 months ago
US Spanish speakers were asked to indicate the urgency they felt when shown different Spanish words used in translations of weather "watch", "warning" and "advisory" alerts. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Research

Simplified: US Spanish speakers indicated urgency when shown different Spanish words for weather alerts

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2 months ago
The urgency of weather warnings often gets lost in translation. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: The urgency of weather warnings often gets lost in translation

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2 months ago