Editorial Essay: Innovation in Risk and Crisis Communication: Toward New Topics, Theories, and Methods

Abstract

Climate change, emerging diseases, population migration and dislocation, breakdowns in civil society, aging infrastructure, risingexpectations, limitations and competition for critical resources—food, water, energy—technological complexity and collapses, andmany other forms of natural, human-caused, and interactive events will challenge and, in many cases, overwhelm our communicationprocesses and capacities.