Research and analysis

Communicating risk and uncertainty in flood warnings: a review of literature

This report reviews previous projects outputs to establish factors affecting risk and uncertainty communication.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
1 September 2009

Documents

Communicating risk and uncertainty in flood warnings: a review of Defra/Environment Agency FCERM literature

Ref: LIT 4250

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The review characterises the current flood forecasting and warning system, in order to able to understand where and how probabilistic information might be used. The review then discusses the research to date on the social aspects of probabilistic flood forcasting.

Published 1 September 2009