Pescaroli, Gianluca;
Dryhurst, Sarah;
Karagiannis, Georgios Marios;
(2025)
Bridging gaps in research and practice for early warning systems: new datasets for public response.
Frontiers in Communication
, 10
, Article 1451800. 10.3389/fcomm.2025.1451800.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bridging gaps in research and practice for early warning systems: new datasets for public response |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fcomm.2025.1451800 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1451800 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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. |
| Keywords: | public alerting, early warning systems, public warning, disaster management, crisis management |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205144 |
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