- Author
- Mileti, D. S. | Sorensen, J. H.
- Title
- Communication of Emergency Public Warnigs. A Social Science Perspective and State-of-the-Art Assessment.
- Coporate
- Colorado State Univ., Boulder Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
- Sponsor
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
- ORNL-6609, August 1990, 161 p.
- Contract
- DE-AC05-84OR21400
- Keywords
- warning systems | public awareness | communication networks | emergencies
- Identifiers
- United States of America (USA); current warning systems in the United States; definition of a warning system; building and evaluating a warning system; organizational aspects of warning systems; public response aspects of warning systems; hazard-specific aspects of warning systems; problems, limits, and improvements; organizational effectiveness; factors correlated with hearing, understanding, believing, personalizing, responding to and confirming warnings; telephone overload during emergencies