WRC Publications and Reports
A repository of the publications, working papers and reports led by members and affiliates of UCL WRC that highlight and address the issues around hazard warnings.
Briefing Notes
Our Warning Briefing Notes series are two-page documents that are designed to provide quick and accessible insight into various aspects of warnings, providing state of the art of research, core needs, and high-level guidance and recommendations. The series is supported by Anticipation Hub and Global Disaster Preparedness Centre (GDPC).
- Combine art and technology for early warning for all
- Common Alerting Protocol (CAP): Standards-based, all-hazards, all-media public alerting
- Community and impact-based warnings
- Community-based early warning systems
- Early Warning Systems for Landslides: The necessity of a systematic and bottom-up approach
- Enhancing Early Warning Systems for Nuclear Plant Water Contamination
- Enhancing Warnings: Developing and supporting effective warnings
- False Alarms and Near Misses
- The First Mile of Warnings: Placing people first
- Inclusive Warnings: Involving everyone in warning processes
- Infectious Disease Warnings: Multi-sectoral integration
- Mobile-based Early Warning Systems: For effective and inclusive alerting
- Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: Building warnings for multiple hazards (MHEWS)
- Warnings in Violence and Conflict: Coproducing warnings with and for those most at risk
Reports
- The Core Pillar: Ensuring success of the Early Warnings for All Initiative
- Designing Inclusive, Accessible Early Warning Systems: Good Practices and Entry Points, commissioned by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (administered by The World Bank)
- Embedding Protection, Gender, and Inclusion in Anticipatory Action: A Guide and Toolkit for Practitioners, published by Plan International UK, 2024
- Enhancing Warnings, commissioned by the National Preparedness Commission
- From Policy to Practice: Case Studies in Resilience and Public Warning, a collaborative report with Everbridge
- Inclusive early warning early action: checklist and implementation guide, developed as part of the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Pacific initiative
- Preparedness efforts for health threats: the gap between detection and action
- Translating Warnings into Actions: How we can improve early warning systems to protect communities, commissioned by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
UCL WRC Newsletter Editions
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