A Textual Processing Model of Risk Communication: Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan

• Main Authors: Lejano, Raul P, Tan, Joyce Melcar T, Wilson, A. Meriwether W
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Subjects: Communications/decision making; Emergency preparedness; Planning; Policy; Emergency and Disaster Management
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/78; http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-16-0023.1
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

As the world’s urban poor increase in numbers, they become acutely vulnerable to hazards from extreme weather events. On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck the province of Leyte, Philippines, with casualties numbering in the thousands, largely because of the ensuing storm surge that swept the co...