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https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2-25-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2-25-2019
Research article
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21 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 21 Jan 2019

Assessing the impact of outreach strategies in cities coping with climate risks

Rosa Vicari, Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, and Daniel Schertzer

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The resilience of our cities to climate risks relies on the capacity of urban communities to communicate. This paper presents a study aimed at understanding how to assess the impact of public outreach campaigns on urban resilience. The paper reviews resilience assessment methods, highlights those frameworks that consider communication impacts, and presents a range of experiments aimed at testing novel resilience communication indicators.
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