Reporting on the seminar - Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA) : decision making under conditions of uncertainty

Reports on the World Social Science (WSS) Fellows seminar on Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA), Dec 2013. Documents the seminar and the initial outcomes from six working groups organised to review the RIA framework under the theme of 'decision-making under conditions of uncertainty' and to develop novel theoretical approaches to respond to and improve this framework : 1. the assessment of water-related risks in megacities; 2. rethinking risk communication; 3. the embodiment of uncertainty; 4. communication in resettlement and reconstruction phases; 5. the integration of indigenous knowledge in disaster risk reduction; and 6. multi-scale policy implementation for natural hazard risk reduction. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.