When it comes to storm preparation and other community planning exercises, resident participation is important. Community leaders use these Digital Coast products to increase their risk communication skills and their ability to engage the community.
Understand Your Audience
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Training – Publication
Risk Communication Basics
Outlines why people respond to risk the way they do and how to inspire risk-wise behavior with risk communication best practices.
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Training – Publication
Enhanced Engagement and Risk Communication for Underserved Communities
Reviews risk perception, risk behavior, and communication approaches from the literature, and provides best practice recommendations.
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Training – Online Guide
Risk Communication Mental Shortcuts: Why People Do What They Do
Demonstrates mental shortcuts people take to make decisions about risk, and provides communication tips on how to work with these shortcuts.
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Training – Quick Reference
Building Risk Communication Skills: Questions to Ask and What to Listen For
Provides questions to help get the conversation started about risks.
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Training – Quick Reference
Risk Communication Strategy Template
Provides an easy-to-follow worksheet for developing a risk communication strategy for a specific audience with an actionable goal.
Consider Best Practices
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Training – Virtual Course
Preparing for Effective Risk Communication
Provides steps to develop a risk communication strategy and tips for better conversations through listening, sharing, and building a relationship.
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Training – Quick Reference
Connecting with Your Audience: Planning Your Next Interaction
Provides a worksheet to plan details of your next interaction with your specific audience including content, format, and logistics.
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Training – Virtual Course
Seven Best Practices
Introduces participants to the techniques most useful for effective communication about coastal hazards (90-minute webinar).
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Training – Quick Reference
Risk Communication Best Practices
Offers a tip sheet of best practices and techniques for risk communication projects.
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Training – Online Guide
Risk Communication Essentials for More Effective Conversations
Demonstrates risk communication essentials to enable conversations that connect with your audience’s concerns and values.
Visualize the Issue
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Tool
Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
Map people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. Use the information to start community conversations about risk reduction strategies.
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Tool
Lake Level Viewer
Map potential lake level changes and impacts for the U.S. Great Lakes. Use the visualizations to start community conversations about impacts and risk reduction strategies.
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Tool
Sea Level Rise Viewer
Use the “marsh migration” tab to see how wetlands in your area are impacted by sea level rise. Watch the tutorial to see how to get the most out of this powerful information resource.
Use Ready-Made Visuals
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Training – Video
Storm Surge
Provides information about storm surge and its impacts (1-minute animated video).
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Training – Video
Tsunami
Explains how to prepare for and respond to a tsunami (1-minute animated video).
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Training – Online Guide
Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods
Identifies current and future coastal flood risk and impacts on stormwater systems. Generates a report for use in risk communication.
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Training – Video
What Does Tidal Flooding Look Like?
Shows the impacts of high tide flooding and identifies actions communities can take to prepare (interactive video).