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The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness
Noting the frequency of tropical storm hazards and related disasters within the Caribbean, this paper initially highlights the relatively short average period of ‘storm awareness timing’ in the region, less than 24 hours, with variations in time and space. Next, it evaluates the results of a survey...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9544344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35437804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12540 |
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author | Dookie, Denyse S. Spence‐Hemmings, Jacqueline |
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description | Noting the frequency of tropical storm hazards and related disasters within the Caribbean, this paper initially highlights the relatively short average period of ‘storm awareness timing’ in the region, less than 24 hours, with variations in time and space. Next, it evaluates the results of a survey on communicating disaster risk by a range of participants at the 2016 Wet/Hurricane Season Caribbean Community Climate Outlook Forum in Dominica. Respondents commented that there may be a ‘weekend effect’ possibly hindering quick action and suggested that improved institutional support was needed to use climate information better. Analysis of these two datasets in tandem offers a unique understanding of whether the timing of events may contribute to limitations on responses by local authorities. Lastly, the paper ends with insights into how this research can assist regional authorities in enhancing and utilising climate information for disaster risk reduction, as well as by indicating where critical issues remain. |
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spelling | pubmed-95443442022-10-14 The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness Dookie, Denyse S. Spence‐Hemmings, Jacqueline Disasters Papers Noting the frequency of tropical storm hazards and related disasters within the Caribbean, this paper initially highlights the relatively short average period of ‘storm awareness timing’ in the region, less than 24 hours, with variations in time and space. Next, it evaluates the results of a survey on communicating disaster risk by a range of participants at the 2016 Wet/Hurricane Season Caribbean Community Climate Outlook Forum in Dominica. Respondents commented that there may be a ‘weekend effect’ possibly hindering quick action and suggested that improved institutional support was needed to use climate information better. Analysis of these two datasets in tandem offers a unique understanding of whether the timing of events may contribute to limitations on responses by local authorities. Lastly, the paper ends with insights into how this research can assist regional authorities in enhancing and utilising climate information for disaster risk reduction, as well as by indicating where critical issues remain. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-07 2022-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9544344/ /pubmed/35437804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12540 Text en © 2021 The Authors Disasters © 2021 ODI https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Papers Dookie, Denyse S. Spence‐Hemmings, Jacqueline The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
title | The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
title_full | The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
title_fullStr | The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
title_full_unstemmed | The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
title_short | The timing of storm awareness in the Caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
title_sort | timing of storm awareness in the caribbean: the utility of climate information for improved disaster preparedness |
topic | Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9544344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35437804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12540 |
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