The Missing Links in Community Warning Systems: Findings from Two Victorian Community Warning System Projects
@article{Betts2003TheML,
title={The Missing Links in Community Warning Systems: Findings from Two Victorian Community Warning System Projects},
author={Robyn Betts},
journal={The Australian journal of emergency management},
year={2003},
volume={18},
pages={37}
}This paper confirms the identification of principles that have been developed by Handmer (2001) to determine the effectiveness of community warning systems and suggests that there are also processes which link these principles defining the relationship that the principles have to each other The research and explanations of community warning systems to date has been extremely limited with a focus on warning technology solutions and descriptions of warning system operations. Effective warning…
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