Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience: Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach (1st ed. 2016) (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research #45)

By: Jeanette L. Drake and Yekaterina Y. Kontar and John C. Eichelberger and T. Scott Rupp and Karen M. Taylor

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319201610
Related ISBNs:: 9783319201603
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 09/09/19
Copyrighted By:: Springer International Publishing, Cham
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Earth Sciences, Communication
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jeanette L. Drake
Edited by:: Yekaterina Y. Kontar
Edited by:: John C. Eichelberger
Edited by:: T. Scott Rupp
Edited by:: Karen M. Taylor