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Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Why Risk Communication is the Critical Component in Disaster Risk Reduction

Bapon Fakhruddin, Helen Clark, Lisa Robinson, Loretta Hieber-Girardet
Progress in Disaster Science, volume 8 (2020), 4 pp.
"Even the most sophisticated forecasting models and advanced early warning systems can be rendered ineffective if the information is not communicated clearly, on time, and in a way that allows the end-user to consider options and act appropriately. These challenges not only apply to fast onset hazar ... more
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Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
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David Holmes, Lucy M. Richardson (eds.)
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (2020), xv, 362 pp.
"Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences. International scholars survey the key disciplinar ... more
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COVID-19: Global Risk Communication and Community Engagement Strategy. Interim Guidance December 2020 — May 2021
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World Health Organization (WHO) (2020), 46 pp.
"There is an unprecedented need to elevate the role risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) plays in breaking the chains of transmission and mitigating the impact of the pandemic. A revised RCCE strategy was needed to reflect this and the learning from the response to-date. The new strate ... more
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COVID-19: How to Include Marginalized and Vulnerable People in Risk Communication and Community Engagement

UN Women; Translators Without Borders; Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Working Group on COVID-19 Preparedness and Response in Asia and the Pacific (2020), 12 pp.
"Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies. This is due to factors such as ... more
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2019

Care International (2020), 19 pp.
"With CARE’s fourth global 'Suffering In Silence' report, we are starting to see a trend of certain countries annually remaining on the list of the most under-reported crises. While we expanded the analysis in 2019 by including Spanish and Arabic online media coverage (in addition to English, Fren ... more
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From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas

Lisha Ye, Huiqin Yang
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 6: 2424 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser ... more
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Del miedo a la acción. Información en emergencias: Un salvavidas

Vivian Newman Pont, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía, Daniel Ospina Celis
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 17 pp.
"En este documento nos centraremos en cuatro facetas del acceso a la información, con sus respectivos riesgos, que deben tener en cuenta los tomadores de decisión en la coyuntura actual. Asimismo, buscamos ofrecer soluciones o recomendaciones que puedan implementar tanto el Gobierno como el sector ... more
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The Science of Behaviour Change

Colin Strong, Tamara Ansons
Ipsos (2020), 10 pp.
"In a review of the academic and practitioner literature on behaviour change we find that one system offers the best response to the challenges we have identified: The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), developed by Professor Susan Michie and colleagues. It is comprehensive, theory-based, evidence-backed ... more
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Analysing Participatory Video Through the Capability Approach: A Case Study in Quart De Poblet (Valencia, Spain)

Alejandra Boni, Aurora López-Fogués, Gynna Millán, Sergio Belda-Miquel
Action Research, volume 18, issue 3 (2020), pp. 282-301
"The aim of this paper is to analyse participatory video as a participatory action research method through the lenses of the capability approach. In order to do this, we used a participatory video experience that took place in the municipality of Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain) from February to Ma ... more
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Building Smart Villages: A Blueprint. As Piloted in Niger

Geneva: ITU (2020), xiv, 57 pp.
"This Smart Village Blueprint, piloted in Niger, has been conceived as a practical tool for establishing smart villages. It contributes to the implementation of the Niger 2.0 Smart Villages project, which aims at providing broadband infrastructure to improve Internet access in rural and remote parts ... more
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Tip Sheet on Maintaining Confidential Digital Dialogue During Humanitarian Emergencies

Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020), 5 pp.
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Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

Tabitha Hrynick, Santiago Ripoll, Megan Schmidt-Sane
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 18 pp.
"This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is more complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties – not just, or even primarily, exposure to misinformation or anti-vaccine campaigners. Based ... more
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Research Report on Ugandan Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Public Affairs, May-September 2020

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2020), 49 pp.
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Expanding Connectivity to Fight COVID-19: Recommendations for Governments and Telcos

Eric Null
Access Now (2020), 15 pp.
"Both international and domestic laws recognize that extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures. The COVID-19 pandemic is such an extraordinary circumstance, and it requires that telecommunications companies (“telcos”) and governments take extraordinary measures to ensure that pe ... more
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Online environmental news stories in India during the COVID-19 pandemic: Reporting the ‘crisis’ and ‘concerns’ of the natural ecosystem

Ram Awtar Yadav
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 1, issue Supplement (2020), pp. 2.1-2.7
"This article is a review of the online news reports about the ‘humanitarian crisis’ that surfaced in India as thousands of migrant workers struggled to return home during the nationwide lockdown triggered by COVID-19. With several newspaper editions unable to print and circulate amid lockdown, ... more
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The Principles of Behaviour Change Communications

Government Communication Service (2020), 35 pp.
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Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

Timothy MacNeill
Palgrave Macmillan (2020), ix, 253 pp.
"This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustain ... more
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ITU guidelines for national emergency telecommunication plans

Juan Manuel Roldan, Felipe Ordoñez
Geneva: ITU (2020), v, 95 pp.
"The effective management of the risk of disasters depends on communication and information sharing across all levels of government, within communities, and between public and private organizations. In particular, timely and effective information flow is important for early warning and alerting the ... more
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Mining the Media: How Community Radio Breaks Through Extractivist Discourse Articulations in a Context of Disaster and Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Karla Palma, Camila Alcaíno
Environmental Communication, volume 14, issue 6 (2020), pp. 830-843
"Mining extractive companies have extended their operations to other realms, such as the management of media. Thus, from a space of physical intervention, they start to conquer a space of symbolic representation, creating a gap between local communities’ perceptions of the mining process and the p ... more
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Reading Matters: Surveys and Campaigns. How to Keep and Recover Readers

Åsfrid Hegdal
International Publishers Association (IPA); Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 89 pp.
"The aim of the report has been to identify data about reading habits of the population in a selection of countries, then to summarise them. Our hope is that this report will form an empirical base and a starting point for further research and discussions regarding this important topic for the inter ... more