Natural disasters and risk communication implications of the Cascadia subduction zone megaquake
Asks and addresses how we communicate about natural disasters and what effect our communication has on natural disaster education, understanding, assessment of risk, preparation, and recovery. The chapters of this book present expertise, analyses, and perspectives that are designed to help us better...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Series: | Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Kathryn Schulz
- Conceptualizing risk: media coverage and natural disasters / Jennette Lovejoy
- Cascadia earthquake science and hazards / Robert F. Butler
- Risk perception and earthquake preparedness motivation: Predicting responses to a Cascadia Subduction Zone catastrophic event / Bradley Adame and Claude Miller
- The article that shook the public: a comparative study of "the really big one" and other earthquake coverage / Julie Homchick Crowe
- A "fast and frugal" approach to risk judgment and decision-making and its implications for natural disaster / Kai Kuang
- Public risk perception attitudes on flooding by different societal sectors: an investigation based on the August 2016 flood in Louisiana / Do Kyn Kim and Phillip Madison
- Economic evaluation of multi-hazard risk information in Japan: implication for earthquake risk communication / Hiroaki Matsuura and Keiichi Sato
- Families, companion nonhuman animals, and the CSZ disaster: implications for crisis and risk communication / Julie M. Novak and Ashleigh Day
- What is to be done?
- a preparedness polemic / Yianni Doulis
- Conclusion: Nature, fear, and bewilderment: a human (dis)connect / C. Vail Fletcher
- Epilogue / Chris Goldfinger.