Risk communication
Risk communication is a complex cross-disciplinary academic field that is part of risk management and related to fields like crisis communication. The goal is to make sure that targeted audiences understand how risks effect to them or their communities by appealing to their values. Risk communication is particularly important in disaster preparedness, public health, and preparation for major global catastrophic risk. For example, the impacts of climate change and climate risk effect every part of society, so communicating that risk is an important climate communication practice, in order for societies to plan for climate adaptation. Similarly, in  pandemic prevention, understanding of risk helps communities stop the spread of disease and improve responses. Risk communication deals with possible risks and aims to raise awareness of those risks to encourage or persuade changes in behavior to relieve threats in the long term. On the other hand, crisis communication is aimed at raising awareness of a specific type of threat, the magnitude, outcomes, and specific behaviors to adopt to reduce the threat. Methods. Risk communication and community engagement. Risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) is a method that draws heavily on volunteers, frontline personnel and on people without prior training  in this area. The World Health Organization advocated for this approach during the early recommendations for public health mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenges. Problems for risk communicators involve how to reach the intended audience, how to make the risk comprehensible and relatable to other risks, how to pay appropriate respect to the audience's values related to the risk, how to predict the audience's response to the communication, etc. A main goal of risk communication is to improve collective and individual decision making. Some experts coincide that risk is not only enrooted in the communication process but also  it cannot be dissociated from the use of language. Though each culture develops its own fears and risks, these construes apply only by the hosting culture.