GNGTS 2024 - Atti del 42° Convegno Nazionale

Session 2.3 GNGTS 2024 Seismic risk communicaton in Europe over the last two decades G. Musacchio 1 , A. Saraò 2 , S. Falsaperla 3 , A. Scolobig 4 1 Sezione di Milano, Isttuto Nazionale di Geofsica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy 2 Isttuto Nazionale di Oceanografa e di Geofsica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy 3 Sezione di Catania, Osservatorio Etneo, Isttuto Nazionale di Geofsica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy 4 Insttute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Equity and Justce Group, Internatonal Insttute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria Introducton Risk communicaton is a key component of risk management. It can raise risk awareness, increase preparedness and promote the adopton of protectve measures before, during and afer disaster events. To enable risk reducton and resilience, risk communicaton should be a two-way, dynamic and interactve process, rather than a one-way transfer of informaton from experts to citzens. Since the Seveso Directve I (1982), internatonal guidelines such as the Yokohama Strategy (IDNDR, 1994), the Hyogo Strategy (UNISDR, 2005) and the Sendai Framework (UNISDR, 2015-2030) have recognized the potental of risk communicaton to promote community empowerment. From the Yokohama Strategy to the Sendai Framework, communicaton approaches have evolved from the prevailing one-way model to more comprehensive transdisciplinary strategies that envision working directly with communites at risk to motvate them to take precautonary acton. The Sendai Framework promotes communicaton approaches that are tailored to the needs and capacites of diferent groups and communites. It emphasizes the importance of a whole-of-society approach to risk communicaton that involves all stakeholders, including governments, civil society, the private sector, academia, the media and communites. Efectve communicaton requires diferent strategies for each disaster phase: mitgaton, preparedness, response and recovery. An analysis of risk communicaton strategies can be found in the mid-term review of the implementaton of the Sendai Framework (United Natons Ofcial Documents, 2023). Nevertheless, an in-depth analysis of earthquake risk communicaton practces is stll a research gap. This study aims to fll this gap by focusing on seismic risk communicaton and its development in Europe. Methodology and analysis We applied the scoping review method (see Musacchio et al., 2023 and reference therein) and structured our analysis around the following questons: “What are the main characteristcs of earthquake risk communicaton practses and research in Europe?” and “Have they changed over tme?”. To answer these questons, we analysed selected publicatons from three scholar databases, i.e., Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar, to obtain the most comprehensive overview of scientfc publicatons.