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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

Knowledge

CERC aligns emergency communication with uncertainty, public decisions, and changing evidence. Its six principles combine timely information with accuracy, empathy, credibility, respect, and usable action. Prepared relationships and update procedures matter because polished messages cannot overcome inaccessible guidance or guarantee public trust.

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Editorial orientation · Family

Tool

In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

Editorial orientation · Category

Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

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