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Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience

Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach

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Editors:
  1. Jeanette L. Drake

    1. College of Business, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, USA

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  2. Yekaterina Y. Kontar

    1. International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

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  3. John C. Eichelberger

    1. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

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  4. T. Scott Rupp

    1. International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

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  5. Karen M. Taylor

    1. Department of Communication, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Introduction: An Overview of Crisis Communication

    • Lindsay E. Kuntzman, Jeanette L. Drake
    Pages 1-24

  3. Facing Crisis: The Role of Communication in Fostering Resilience or Fomenting Resistance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Crisis and Risk Communications: Best Practices Revisited in an Age of Social Media

      • Cory Young, Aditi Rao, Alexis Rosamilia
      Pages 27-36

    3. Polluted Discourse: Communication and Myths in a Climate of Denial

      • Peter H. Jacobs, Ari Jokimäki, Ken Rice, Sarah A. Green, Bärbel Winkler
      Pages 37-54

    4. Public Perceptions of Global Warming: Understanding Survey Differences

      • Kelly Klima
      Pages 55-63

    5. Building Interfaces That Work: A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation

      • Julia Schmale, Erika von Schneidemesser, Ilan Chabay, Achim Maas, Mark G. Lawrence
      Pages 65-76

  4. Before Disaster: New Methods to Predict, Prepare, and Prevent the Worst

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Fostering Resilience in the Face of an Uncertain Future: Using Scenario Planning to Communicate Climate Change Risks and Collaboratively Develop Adaptation Strategies

      • Nancy Fresco, Kristin Timm
      Pages 79-94

    3. Barriers to Using Climate Information: Challenges in Communicating Probabilistic Forecasts to Decision-Makers

      • Melanie Davis, Rachel Lowe, Sophie Steffen, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Xavier Rodó
      Pages 95-113

    4. Modelling Climate-Sensitive Disease Risk: A Decision Support Tool for Public Health Services

      • Rachel Lowe, Xavier Rodó
      Pages 115-130

    5. Shallow Landslide Hazard Mapping for Davao Oriental, Philippines, Using a Deterministic GIS Model

      • Ian Kaye Alejandrino, Alfredo Mahar Lagmay, Rodrigo Narod Eco
      Pages 131-147

  5. Mitigating Circumstances: Communicating Through Change, Uncertainty, and Disaster

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Comparative Analysis of Virtual Relief Networks and Communication Channels During Disaster Recovery After a Major Flood in Galena, Alaska, Spring 2013

      • Karen M. Taylor, Richard Hum, Yekaterina Y. Kontar
      Pages 151-171

    3. Development of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan as a Mining Social Responsibility Practice

      • Alexandra Masaitis, Glenn C. Miller
      Pages 173-187

    4. Controlling Environmental Crisis Messages in Uncontrollable Media Environments: The 2011 Case of Blue-Green Algae on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees, OK

      • Alicia M. Mason, James R. Triplett
      Pages 189-204

    5. Characteristics of Extreme Monsoon Floods and Local Land Use in the Lower Mekong Basin, Cambodia

      • Naoko Nagumo, Sumiko Kubo, Toshihiko Sugai
      Pages 205-221

    6. The Value of Earth Observations: Methods and Findings on the Value of Landsat Imagery

      • Holly M. Miller, Larisa O. Serbina, Leslie A. Richardson, Sarah J. Ryker, Timothy R. Newman
      Pages 223-237

  6. Learning Forward: Communicating Climate Change Among Diverse Audiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Carbon Offsets in California: Science in the Policy Development Process

      • Barbara Haya, Aaron Strong, Emily Grubert, Danny Cullenward
      Pages 241-254
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Business, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, USA

    Jeanette L. Drake

  • International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

    Yekaterina Y. Kontar, T. Scott Rupp

  • University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

    John C. Eichelberger

  • Department of Communication, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

    Karen M. Taylor

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