Model for risk communication
DURCOM introduces a research-informed framework designed to support practitioners in reflecting on their ongoing or anticipated risk communication efforts.
How can municipal communication practices benefit from risk and preparedness research to better understand and reflect on their own risk communication efforts?
This book chapter presents a research-based model designed to support reflection on – or planning of – a municipality’s risk communication practice, with the overarching goal of strengthening societal crisis preparedness and resilience.
Eriksson, M. (2024). A Multi-motive Risk Communication Model for “Making” Crisis Preparedness. I: Audra Diers-Lawson, Andreas Schwarz, Florian Meissner, Silvia Ravazzani, Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times. New York: Routledge.