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Visual warnings and community memories are very powerful. 0.900

👤 Keri Stephens 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Community

Simplified: Visual warnings and community memories are very powerful

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3 months ago
Getting clear, timely warnings out to people becomes lifesaving when floods hit. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Disaster

Simplified: Getting clear timely warnings out to people becomes lifesaving when floods hit

1 sources

3 months ago
We should depend on the community more. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: Depend on the community more

0 sources

3 months ago
Getting the word out through various mediums will always be incredibly important. 0.900

👤 Trujillo-Falcón 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: Getting the word out through various mediums is incredibly important

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3 months ago
It's people who have been engaged with, listened to and included in the creation and maintenance of warning systems who are the most responsive. 0.900

👤 Ordoñez 📋 News Article 🏷️ Communication , Safety

Simplified: People engaged with and included in warning systems are the most responsive

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3 months ago
Evacuating people at risk from floods is difficult to do with technology alone. 0.900

👤 Ordoñez 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Technology

Simplified: Evacuating people at risk from floods is difficult with technology alone

0 sources

3 months ago
Forty brigade members helped evacuate hundreds of people when floods hit during Cyclone Yaku in March 2023. 0.950

👤 Ordoñez 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety , Geography

Simplified: Forty brigade members helped evacuate hundreds of people during Cyclone Yaku in March 2023

0 sources

3 months ago
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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3 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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3 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

0 sources

3 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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3 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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3 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

0 sources

3 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 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

0 sources

3 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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3 months ago