D-5-1: Models of ‘good’ risk communication for flooding and other water-related hazards: a critical review 

This report reviews recent research on risk communication, focusing in particular on flooding and other water-related hazards. It identifies four broad models of risk communication: the Risk Message, Risk Instrument, Risk Dialogue, and Risk Government Models. These models involve quite different normative beliefs and theoretical assumptions, which in turn provide quite different bases for assessing the character, quality, and purpose of risk communication. Those differences must be understood and appreciated in order to assess the potential roles risk communication might play in achieving the wider aims of KULTURisk.