A Study on Stakeholder Trust in Sri Lanka’s Multi-Hazard Early Warning (MHEW) Mechanism

Pitigala Liyana Arachchi Ishani  Shehara; Chandana S. A. Siriwardana; Dilanthi Amaratunga; Richard Haigh; T Fonseka

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73003-1_46

A Study on Stakeholder Trust in Sri Lanka’s Multi-Hazard Early Warning (MHEW) Mechanism

Pitigala Liyana Arachchi Ishani Shehara, Chandana S. A. Siriwardana, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh, T Fonseka

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Focusing on human behavioral aspects are significant in the effective delivery of Early Warnings to the community on time. In that context, the extent of trust towards the Multi-Hazard Early Warning mechanism plays a major role. This deals with delivering the warning messages related to several hazard categories and the cascading disaster risks triggered by one hazard striking. Among the stakeholders who are interlinked with this mechanism, first responders play a vital role in disseminating the Early Warnings to the vulnerable community at downstream level. To examine the perception of the first responders, a survey was undertaken and overall 1004 responses were collected. From the indicator calculation of the trust based on the mean score and the sentiment score, the extent of the perception level was determined. This denoted that there exists a lower level perception of trust towards the existing Multi-Hazard Early Warning mechanism. This was revealed with this basis of the content of the message, level of understandability of the message and extent of variation of the immediate response with time towards the warnings delivered on different hazard categories. Further, the correlation determination of experience of the first responders with the number of people with non-varying trust levels was examined through IBM SPSS software. Here, the graphical representation denotes a negative polynomial relationship with r2 value of 0.9. This denoted a strong negative correlation among the two parameters, in which the experience of the first responders was limited to a maximum of 5 years. These results were then compared with the findings of the recent research study that was on community-level assessment of the perception on the existing Multi-Hazard Early Warning mechanism. From the results obtained, it was revealed that the community has a high preference on adapting to Early Warnings delivered through mobile phone while first responders have a lower level of trust on this mechanism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multi-hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risks
Editors	Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh, Nuwan Dias
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Pages	711-736
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030730031
ISBN (Print)	9783030730024, 9783030730055
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73003-1_46
Publication status	Published - 12 Sep 2021
Event	International Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction: To promote the availability and application of research, science and technology to support implementation of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 - Virtual, Colombo, Sri Lanka Duration: 14 Dec 2020 → 16 Dec 2020 http://cabaret.buildresilience.org/2020_Symposium/ http://cabaret.buildresilience.org/2020_Symposium/index.html

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Conference	International Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction
Country/Territory	Sri Lanka
City	Colombo
Period	14/12/20 → 16/12/20
Internet address	http://cabaret.buildresilience.org/2020_Symposium/ http://cabaret.buildresilience.org/2020_Symposium/index.html

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Shehara, PLAI, Siriwardana, CSA, Amaratunga, D, Haigh, R & Fonseka, T 2021, A Study on Stakeholder Trust in Sri Lanka’s Multi-Hazard Early Warning (MHEW) Mechanism. in D Amaratunga, R Haigh & N Dias (eds), Multi-hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risks. Springer, Cham, pp. 711-736, International Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 14/12/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73003-1_46

A Study on Stakeholder Trust in Sri Lanka’s Multi-Hazard Early Warning (MHEW) Mechanism. / Shehara, Pitigala Liyana Arachchi Ishani ; Siriwardana, Chandana S. A.; Amaratunga, Dilanthi et al.

Multi-hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risks. ed. / Dilanthi Amaratunga; Richard Haigh; Nuwan Dias. Springer, Cham, 2021. p. 711-736.

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