In this perspective paper, published on Frontiers in Communication, Gianluca Pescaroli, Sarah Dryhurst and George Karagiannis draw on insights from the literature and a project operationalising the World Risk Poll, to highlight four key areas:
- (1) leveraging public behaviors and responses to enhance warning effectiveness;
- (2) understanding the role of trust in information sources and its influence on warning reception;
- (3) identifying limitations in existing analyses; and
- (4) addressing operational challenges such as data accessibility and harmonisation.
They propose a coherent approach that utilises multi-country surveys to establish a common benchmark for addressing these issues, identifying shared patterns across diverse geographies, and improving the management of complex events and cross-border crises. This benchmarking effort could reveal actionable insights into regional drivers of EWS effectiveness, ultimately fostering greater international cooperation and advancing the socio-technical integration of disaster risk knowledge into operational resilience.
