{"id":260,"date":"2018-12-11T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/?p=260"},"modified":"2018-12-11T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:55:37","slug":"communicating-risk-in-uncertain-predictions-focusing-on-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/communicating-risk-in-uncertain-predictions-focusing-on-the-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating risk in uncertain predictions: focusing on the individual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2018\/12\/New_Approach-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2018\/12\/New_Approach-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2018\/12\/New_Approach.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re often surrounded by risks in our daily lives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it safe for me to cross the road now?<\/li>\n<li>Is the food at this burger van safe to eat?<\/li>\n<li>Is this web site safe to use?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The risk of flooding which might affect our homes or our lives often isn\u2019t one of our highest priorities.\u00a0 We might know it\u2019s been there as a possibility since we moved to our current address.\u00a0 We might know that we\u2019ve seen rain or storms before; we might also have an optimistic outlook on all these risks.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to be pre-occupied by them, do we?\u00a0 And if we even went looking to find out about risks, would they be applicable to us anyway, and how certain would the assessments of risk be?<\/p>\n<p>Today we publish the results of a pilot project arising from a collaboration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabconsultants.co.uk\/\">RAB Consultants<\/a> and University of Dundee researchers.\u00a0 Through the use of focus group research, it explores attitudes to communicating the risk of flooding on an individual basis, and considers how uncertainties can be expressed in ways which are locally specific and easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>The research was made possible through an incubator grant from the University of Dundee\u2019s Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR \u2013 now part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/social-sciences\/research\/\">Institute for Social Science Research<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Download: <a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2018\/12\/Communicating-Flood-Risk-with-Uncertain-Predictions_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Communicating Flood Risk with Uncertain Predictions<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Full citation: Cranston, M, Cuthill, F, Smith, F, Black, A and Malcolm, J (2018) Communicating Risk in Uncertain Predictions.\u00a0 University of Dundee, 8p.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re often surrounded by risks in our daily lives: Is it safe for me to cross the road now? Is the food at this burger van safe to eat? Is this web site safe to use? The risk of flooding which might affect our homes or our lives often isn\u2019t one of our highest priorities.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,29,32,31],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-communicating-risk","tag-flood-risk","tag-research","tag-uncertainty"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/hydrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}