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Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness: A Training Handbook

New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ);Indo-German Environment Partnership Programme (IGEP) (2012), viii, 122 pp.

"The main objective of the media component of the Environmental Planning and Disaster Risk Management (EPDRM) programme of GIZ in India is to enable journalists to better and more efficiently perform their roles, functions and tasks in the context of disaster risk management, i.e. information to the ... public, awareness building with regard to disaster risks and preparedness, warning in case of disasters, information on response, relief and reconstruction. In order to achieve this objective, the project has been planned under different components, viz., orientation workshops for the practicing journalists in different high-on-disaster-risk states; facilitating a virtual platform for information exchange and knowledge sharing among participants from the orientation workshops as well as other experts; and developing curriculum on reporting disaster for the journalism students of various Indian journalism institutes. Orientation workshops were conducted in seven states (Tamilnadu, Odisha, Gujarat, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Assam and Punjab) during 2010-2011. A Facebook community and a web portal have been established to facilitate the virtual exchange among the journalists and thematic experts. In order to extend awareness and capacity building activities related to disasters to journalists, the project also facilitated development of a curriculum on reporting disaster to be used in journalism departments of universities and media training institutes. A core-group of experts and trainers from media training institutes, as well as from other relevant organizations was formed, which deliberated upon the overall structure and outline of the DRR curriculum required to be introduced to the students of journalism. A team of authors and editors had then put together the contents of the curriculum along with guidance on how to use the contents, which is being produced in the form of this handbook. This curriculum was piloted in September this year, with journalism students in the North Eastern Region of India, and inputs on the training methods used were also received from faculty members during a ToT of this curriculum. This Training Handbook on "Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness" provides basic concepts, case studies, and examples that can be customized as a module in a course or an entire course as part of the overall curriculum of a journalism course in Indian universities and institutes." (Preface) more

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A Practical Guide to Sustainable IT

Paul Mobbs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2012), 167 pp.

"This practical guide to sustainable IT offers a detailed, hands-on introduction to thinking about sustainable computing holistically; starting with the choices you make when buying technology, the software and peripherals you use, through to how you store and work with information, manage your secu ... more

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"Africa Talks Climate": Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries

Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 504-520

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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects

Jan Servaes, Emily Polk, Song Shi, Danielle Reilly, Thanu Yakupitijage

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123

"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more

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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Nepal

Dil Bahadur Khatri, Ramesh Prasad Bhushal, Naya Naya Sharma Paudel, Niru Gurung

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2012), 20 pp.

"Results show that, overall, REDD+ has received limited attention in the Nepali media. Within the overall climate change discourse in Nepal, the melting of the Himalayan ice-caps and glaciers has dominated all other discourses, including that on REDD+. Nepali journalists have found the science behin ... more

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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea

Andrea Babon, Daniel McIntyre, Ronald Sofe

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2012), vi, 28 pp.

"The study found that the media often framed REDD+ in political and economic terms, at the expense of, for example, ecological concerns or discussions of the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Issues associated with carbon trading were a frequent topic of media articles, with many stor ... more

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Social Media Guide for Climate Change Practitioners in Africa

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) (2012), 10 pp.

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Guidelines for Local Government Biodiversity Communication

ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center (2012), 5 pp.

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Linking Community, Radio, and Action Research on Climate Change: Reflections on a Systemic Approach

Blane Harvey, Danny Burns, Katy Oswald

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 3 (2012), pp. 101-117

"This article reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) with community radio broadcasters in southern Ghana to investigate the impacts of climate change. Through a detailed outline of the methodological approach employed in this initiative as well as ... more

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Environmental Journalism in Asia-Pacific

Alastair Carthew, Paul Linnarz (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2012), 75 pp.

"This publication sets out to achieve a number of objectives of importance to environmental journalism in the Asia-Pacific region. The objectives are: to identify the key environmental issues facing the Asia-Pacific region; to identify and assess journalism organizations, NGOs and others involved in ... more

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Media Meets Climate: The Global Challenge for Journalism

Elisabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2012), 340 pp.

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Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions

Stephen R. J. Sheppard

London; New York: Routledge;Earthscan (2012), xiii, 511 pp.

"Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and local communities. Extensive color imagery expla ... more

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Environmental Journalism in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: Reporting Scarce Amid Environmental and Media Problems

Eric Freedman

Applied Environmental Education & Communication, volume 10, issue 2 (2011), pp. 126-134

"Independence for the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia has not led to press freedom, solutions to pressing environmental problems, or development of effective grassroots nongovernmental organizations. This article examines relations between journalists and environ ... more

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A política de REDD+ na mídia: Um estudo de caso do Brasil

Peter H. May, Bruno Calixto, Maria Fernanda Gebara

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 23 pp.

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Disaster Through a Different Lens: Behind Every Effect, There is a Cause. A Guide for Journalists Covering Disaster Risk Reduction

Brigitte Leoni

United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR);European Commission’s Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection Directorate General (ECHO) (2011), 188 pp.

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Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research, and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

Blane Harvey

International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 2035-2058

"Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities. This article discusses lessons learned to date from the ... more

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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Guide

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2011), 74 pp.

"This guide sets out approaches and tools for public awareness and public education in disaster risk reduction already widely in use by National Societies. It pulls together a range of research on risk communications and public education for behaviour change, and practitioners’ own discoveries in ... more

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Climate-Change Journalism in China: Opportunities for International Cooperation

Sam Geall

Copenhagen; Beijing: International Media Support (IMS);Caixin Media (2011), 137 pp.

"How do Chinese journalists cover climate-Change stories – and what opportunities for international cooperation in the field of climate change reporting exist for funders, NGOs and governments? These are the two related questions that this report attempts to address. The report – produced jointl ... more

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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Brazil

Peter H. May, Bruno Calixto, Maria Fernanda Gebara

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 24 pp.

"[...] despite the global importance of deforestation in the Amazon— the world’s largest remaining tropical forest—Brazil is taking only initial steps towards REDD [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] design, and that these steps are concentrated amongst a few key act ... more

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REDD+ Politics in the Media. A Case Study from Cameroon

Djiegni Flicien Kengoum

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 26 pp.