Investigating Ways to Better Communicate Flood Risk

Summary There are very few current flood maps designed to actually help people understand their flood risk: they are designed as regulation and planning tools. In an effort to understand how flood maps can more accurately show and communicate the changing nature of...

How Residents in Texas Seek Flood Risk Information

Summary A recent study in Risk Analysis by researchers at the Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) found that a shared sense of duty around seeking flood information — if your family or community thinks it’s important to do, so will you — is the most...