I need some help guys, I’m looking for scientific papers about the subject about communication from the government about risks. You know, making people aware of the risks (flooding, chemical plants, etc.), which are present in there living environment. I just can't find the proper word for it. I’m sure it’s easy when you just know what they call it.

All I can find is risk communication, but that only used by dutch people and not by others.

To me its always been 'risk communication.' I don't know if he has government materials, but check out Peter Sandman's website, its very accessible - http://psandman.com/.

fwiw I have always been impressed by the Canadian government's communication on pandemic, its clear, concise, and non-threatening. Stuff that Sandman talks about.

Risk Assessment is a commonly used government term for broadcasting such information.

Do a search on "FEMA risk assessment" and you should find plenty of topical hits.

Maybe the word you are looking for is mitigation?

http://www.fema.gov/plan/mitplanning/index.shtm

Hard to tell exactly what you are after, but "Public Service Announcements" often fill that role here. They are often part of "Public Awareness Campaigns"

If there is no common word or phrase, copin one. then you can join the ranks of etymologists who gifted us with 'disrespected' and 'imbedded'or, 'have a nice day.'

The answer is Risk Communication. Risk Communication is part of a Community Disaster Education or Preparedness program. Tools to communicate the risk are Public Service annoucements, which as YuccaHead pointed out, may be part of Public Awareness Campaigns.

Mitigation is the actual acts taken to reduce the effect of a hazard. i.e. seawalls are a mitigation effort against erosion.

I would suggest checking out the "Disasters" journal, by Overseas Development Institute. I do think you need to change your search terms to include "community preparedness" or similar terms, as the actual term "risk communications" does not seem to be used alot from my research.

BTW, I'm pursuing a Master of Science in Emergency Management.

In my professional IT career and professional exposure to business continuity, project mgt. (and civilian experience w/OES via CERT/ICS/NIMS), the term of art is usually "risk managment."

The terms "continuity," "adversity," "predictability," and "innovation" are often associated with the concept of "risk managment."

I believe the term you're looking for is Hazard(s) Communication. Not sure what your access level is, but there are documents out there that speak to specific hazards, areas, and etc. Some of these are secure documents and not available to the general public.

http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/

http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/

Didn't Homeland Security take on some of that? Disaster Recovery, FEMA, Civil Defense, even parts of CDC? At least from a reporting structure or command tree?

So if it's threat level, versus emergency preparedness, versus risk gap analysis, versus disaster mitigation- so many ways to slice and dice such a topic........

I guess it would help to know what specific risks you are in need of being informed of, just natural disasters, or human threats, or environmental, and if the info is meant for consumers/regular folks, or for academics, or government types...........

thanks guys. I'm not actually looking for information on risks or prepardness, i'm fairly formiliar with those in both mine educational background and mine professional carreer.

I was looking for proper scientific papers about the diffrent methodes and ways a organisation can inform civilians about risks. Most scnientific papers i have found are about medical or food related risk communication, but not much about disaster related risk communication.

I will try some of the suggestions when í'm one a diffrent computer, this one doesn't have as much clearance and google scholar isn't giving me any luck.

I don't have a good answer myself to the original question, but I was just thinking about the issue of trying to educate the public about various risks.

It is certainly a challenge. Whether you are a San Francisco emergency management official trying to educate the public about the dangers of earthquakes and the need to prepare, to a financial expert trying to educate and warn people about the need to save and invest money for retirement, to a scientist trying to communicate the risks of a long-running drought or global warming, to a doctor trying to warn a patient that they need to try and control their blood pressure, people just have a hard to time comprehending such important topics. We humans generally tend not to mentally deal well with events which are "large" or far in the future. Or sometimes things are too painful to want to deal with so we just ignore the problem and simply hope that we won't have to eventually deal with it.

PC2K: Not my book but:
http://archone.tamu.edu/hrrc/Publications/books/FEMA%20book/FEMA%20book%20in%20PDF/FEMACh%201Intro(3).pdf

"... risk communication explains specifically what are the personal risks associated with risk area occupancy and also the hazard adjustments that can be taken to reduce hazard vulnerability."

This is the topic you're looking for.

I suggest you look for papers by Michael K. Lindell, Carla Prater, or Ronald W. Perry. These are the 3 authors of "Introduction to Emergency Management".

Book student companion site:
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=0471772607&bcsId=3495

Check out the "Additional Emergency Management Resources" link on the left. There is a PDF titled "Risk_Communication_MultiEthnic.PDF". This paper may be too theoretical, but their papers tend to bury specifics in the middle. Also, there is an extensive bibliography at the end. Hope this helps.