It is now one week into the trip, and I’m in Kansas City, Missouri. Across the south side of the Missouri River, is Kansas City, Kansas. Dorothy comes from Kansas. Let me recap. In Los Angeles I went to a bar at Manhattan...
Read MoreResearch into warning’s has been going on for many years. In 1990 Denis Mileti and John Sorensen at Colorado State University wrote a definitive work on what we know about warnings: ” A social science perspective and...
Read MoreThe question of course makes the claim that we dont have one at present. We have many warnings and alerts being issued by a multitude of organisations, foremost among them the Bureau of Meteorology. But a system…now...
Read MoreEmergency broadcasting began a few hours late in the day of January 21, 1997. Homes in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges were burning, but there was no adequate and useful advice for residents confronted by the advancing...
Read MoreI am interested in “emergency broadcasting” – emergency warning systems and processes. I am off to the US and Canada after securing a Churchill Foundation 2012 Fellowship I felt the best way to report back from...
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