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Emergency Notification: Warnings and Alerts

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Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Paula Dootson

Abstract

N/A (this is an encyclopedia article)
Citation
Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires
Pub Type
Encyclopedias

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Keywords

emergency communication, wildland fires, risk perception, human behavior, alerts, warnings
Wildland urban interface fire and Fire

Citation

Kuligowski, E. and Dootson, P. (2018), Emergency Notification: Warnings and Alerts, Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created June 15, 2018, Updated March 11, 2019
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