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Pathways for strengthening community feedback and complaints approaches in Papua New Guinea
London: CDAC Network (2024), 5 pp.
"Acknowledging the contextual challenges in Papua New Guinea, CDAC recommends the following actions to UNDP and other response organisations to strengthen approaches to two-way communication with communities in disaster response activities. 1. Utilise the newly established Community of Practice for
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Spreading Like Wildfire: The Securitization of the Amazon Rainforest Fires on Twitter
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 91-111
"As a tool of political communication and information diffusion, social media has transformed the process of securitization, allowing (in)security messages to spread and scale up rapidly. Focusing on the case of the Amazon rainforest fires in 2019, this article seeks to answer two questions: How doe
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Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective
Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 14 pp.
Kenya Media Landscape Guide
London: CDAC Network; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 31 pp.
How to spot harmful information in crises
London: CDAC Network (2024), 2 pp.
"In times of emergency, finding reliable information online can be challenging. This guide offers practical advice to help you identify trustworthy information and avoid misinformation. By asking the right questions and using the tools provided, you can make informed decisions even during a crisis."
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Urgent call to prioritise communication in Gaza
London: CDAC Network (2023), 4 pp.
"Gaza has experienced five near-total communications blackouts since since 7 October 2023.1 People cannot access critical information. They cannot reach loved ones. Aid agencies cannot contact staff or coordinate assistance. Media coverage and documentation is further restricted." (Page 1)
Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022
London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.
"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops
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Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp.
"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected
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Disasters and Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Expert News Media
Environnment and Planning E: Nature and Space, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 178-201
"[...] in popular imagination and policy Indigenous peoples often appear to be caricatured and misrepresented, for instance through tropes of Indigenous peoples as custodians of the environment or especially vulnerable to environmental change. These framings matter because they can result in disaste
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Using Videos in Floods and Bushfires to Educate, Signal Risk, and Promote Protectice Action in the Community
Safety Science, volume 164, issue 106166 (2023), 13 pp.
"Videos are commonly used by emergency services agencies in natural hazard emergencies to communicate to the public about the hazard, its possible risks, and to promote protective action. To evaluate the efficacy of the videos being disseminated and amplified during an event, this research examined
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Social media-based urban disaster recovery and resilience analysis of the Henan deluge
Natural Hazards, volume 118 (2023), pp. 377-405
"Measuring disaster resilience from the perspective of long-term recovery ability is important for the planning and construction of urban sustainability, whereas short-term resilient recovery can better reflect a city’s ability to recover quickly after a disaster occurs. This study proposes an ana
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The Role of Bots in Spreading Conspiracies: Case Study of Discourse About Earthquakes on Twitter
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 92, issue 103740 (2023), 11 pp.
"In this paper, we identified seven most widely spread conspiracy discourses about earthquakes. These conspiracy discourses link earthquakes to military activities like secret nuclear bomb testing, God’s Providence like the punishment of humans for their sins, space activities like aliens visiting
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Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), 291 pp.
Interconnected Disaster Risks
Bonn: United Nations University (UNU) (2023), 92 pp.
