Impact of a workshop with visualization and ethics discussion on awareness of flood risk and intent to protect

Disasters such as storm surge flooding pose an escalating threat to vulnerable coastal communities. While advances in weather models and forecasts are essential for informing protective actions, improving communication with the public for heightened storm preparedness is equally important. In this report, we provide a quantitative evaluation of lessons learned in an online workshop involving over 150 college students. The workshop employed simulated visuals of flooding and role-playing scenarios about a fictitious college campus. In addition, we used an \"Ethical Matrix\" (EM) tool to enable stakeholders to systematically represent, discuss, understand, and weigh tradeoffs and perspectives pertaining to potential impacts of anticipated flooding from an impending hurricane. Building on a brief overview of the workshop (Colle et al. 2023), this report presents quantitative and qualitative results from hypotheses about the workshop’s effects on feelings of worry, intent to take protective ac..., , # Impact of a workshop with visualization and ethics discussion on awareness of flood risk and intent to protect

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.fttdz0956](10.5061/dryad.fttdz0956)

## Description of the data and file structure

Overview. This repository contains supplemental materials supporting the research findings presented in Impact of a Workshop with Visualization and Ethics Discussion on Awareness of Flood Risk and Intent to Protect, WCAS-D-24-0092, on flood risk communication strategies. The study demonstrates that communication methods that foster emotional connections to flood risk significantly enhance protective intentions for both self and for others among the study sample.

### Files and variables

#### File: Supplemental-Materials-A-Characters-and-Matrices.md

**Description:** 

Contents: An introduction to the Ethical Matrix methodology, Example Values Matrix and Consequences Matrix, six detailed character descriptions for the role-play scenarios, additional character profi..., Stony Brook University's Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (IRB) approved our IRB package (IRB ID - IRB2021-00559).

Consent: The package included Supplement Form G* (Request for Waiver, Alteration and/or Documentation of Consent)., which sought a waiver the requirement to obtain consent from research subjects.

De-identifying data: No identifiable private information was collected. Email addresses of those who registered for the workshop were kept only as long as needed to email the participants their gift cards after the workshop. An identifier was used to link together the repeated measures survey responses of individual participants, without including email addresses.