TY  - JOUR
ID  - discovery10205144
N2  - Early warning systems (EWSs) are essential for disaster and crisis response, applicable across a wide range of hazards and threats. They are increasingly recognized as pivotal in cross-disciplinary contexts, where diverse expertise is required to manage cascading, compound, and interconnected risks holistically. Despite their critical role, significant gaps persist in understanding the interplay between the technical, social, and organizational elements that underpin effective systems. Drawing on insights from the literature and our work on global datasets, such as the World Risk Poll, this comment paper highlights 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 harmonization. We propose a coherent approach that utilizes 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.
SN  - 2297-900X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1451800
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
JF  - Frontiers in Communication
KW  - public alerting
KW  -  early warning systems
KW  -  public warning
KW  -  disaster management
KW  -  crisis management
A1  - Pescaroli, Gianluca
A1  - Dryhurst, Sarah
A1  - Karagiannis, Georgios Marios
TI  - Bridging gaps in research and practice for early warning systems: new datasets for public response
VL  - 10
AV  - public
Y1  - 2025/01/30/
N1  - Copyright © 2025 Pescaroli, Dryhurst and Karagiannis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
ER  -