Overview
- Manual of risk and resilience communication for scientists, policymakers and professionals
- Up-to-the-minute context of communicating about natural disasters
- By geoscientists for geoscientists working with social scientists and communication principles
- Underpinned by key communication theories and interspersed with pragmatic solutions
- Crosses traditional boundaries: international, interdisciplinary, theoretical/applied
Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 45)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Facing Crisis: The Role of Communication in Fostering Resilience or Fomenting Resistance
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Before Disaster: New Methods to Predict, Prepare, and Prevent the Worst
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Mitigating Circumstances: Communicating Through Change, Uncertainty, and Disaster
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Learning Forward: Communicating Climate Change Among Diverse Audiences
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About this book
This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute context of new technologies, a new focus on resiliency, and global environmental change. It includes contributions from experts from around the globe whose research, advocacy, teaching, work, or service in the natural or social sciences deals with risk communication and/or management surrounding natural and technological disasters, with a particular focus on climate change-related phenomena. Resilience and good communication are intimately linked and with climate change precipitating more numerous and onerous weather-related catastrophes, a conversation on resilience is timely and necessary. The goal is robust communities that are able to withstand the shock of disaster. Communicating well under ordinary circumstances is challenging; communicating during a crisis is extraordinarily difficult.
This book is dedicated to all those who have directly or indirectly suffered the effects of climate change end extreme events with the hope that the advance of knowledge, implementation of sound science and appropriate policies and use of effective communication will help in reducing their vulnerability while also improving resilience in the face of often devastating natural and technological disasters.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience
Book Subtitle: Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach
Editors: Jeanette L. Drake, Yekaterina Y. Kontar, John C. Eichelberger, T. Scott Rupp, Karen M. Taylor
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20161-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20160-3Published: 16 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37280-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20161-0Published: 05 November 2015
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 311
Topics: Natural Hazards, Communication Studies, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Management, Human Geography, Earth System Sciences