How people respond to extreme weather risks, with Brett Gelino, PhD, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, PhD

Wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves and floods are growing more frequent and more costly, and communities are racing to adapt. But new infrastructure only helps if people use it, and warnings only work if people act on them. Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, PhD, of Stanford University, and Brett Gelino, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, discuss what a climate-resilient community looks like; why repeated alerts can lose their urgency and how officials can convey risk without causing people to tune out; and how research can get into the hands of planners and emergency responders who need it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices