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Walking the faultline of fear: How affect-inducing risk communication can help promote disaster preparedness
Journal of Science Communication, volume 24, issue 6 (2025), 24 pp.
"This paper uses New Zealand’s AF8 [Alpine Fault Magnitude 8] program, designed to build resilience and preparedness for earthquakes, as a real-world example to explore how emotional appeals can affect preparedness intentions within the emergency management sector. Drawing on template analysis of
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Advancing disaster risk communications
Earth-Science Reviews, volume 249, issue 104677 (2024), 14 pp.
"Effective communication of disaster threats to decision makers and at-risk communities is a growing challenge in a people-centred approach to disaster risk reduction. Traditional communication approaches tend to involve either top-down risk management practices or bottom-up community health and edu
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Interconnected Disaster Risks
Bonn: United Nations University (UNU) (2023), 92 pp.
Lessons on Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability for the Pakistan Floods Response
London: CDAC Network (2022), 6 pp.
"1. Pakistan has experienced and responded to floods for decades: support and build on existing systems, networks and experiences that are widely trusted [...] 2. People need information now, to make critical decisions for themselves and their families and to protect what they still have [...] 3. Ca
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World Risk Report 2022. Focus: Digitalization
Berlin; Bochum: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft; Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (2022), 63 pp.
"Digitalization has significantly changed disaster preparedness and management. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are used in all phases of disaster management for knowledge acquisition, information dissemination, communication, as well as control. Examples include the use of global d
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Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Action During Ukraine’s War
Annals of Global Health, volume 88, issue 1 (2022), 6 pp.
"In the light of recent emergencies in Europe and around the globe—including COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine—the spotlight has shifted towards the scarcity of Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) research applied to health emergencies. RCCE nurtures the sense of empowerment among c
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Interconnected Disaster Risks
United Nations University (UNU) (2022), 114 pp.
Critical Gaps and Implications of Risk Communication in the Global Agreements SFDRR, SDGs, and UNFCCC: 3 Select Case Studies from Urban Areas of Tropics in South Asia
Natural Hazards, issue 111 (2022), pp. 2559-2577
"There has been a consistent rise in urban disasters, particularly in developing countries located in tropical areas. Among various challenges of disaster risk management and climate change impacts, it is noted that most residents are poorly informed about their risk exposure or apposite response. T
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Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia
Singapore: Springer; South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE); International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) (2022), xxvii, 460 pp.
"Using a narrative style, this book draws on stories and examples from seven South Asian countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—to highlight how communities in South Asia are building resilience to climate change. A total of 58 authors have contributed to t
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Common Advocacy Statements: The CDAC Network 2022
London: CDAC Network (2022), 5 pp.
"CDAC's core vision focuses on ensuring people and communities are central to identifying solutions to the problems they face in a crisis. The 2022-2027 vision is: 'that communities will have the information and resources they need to determine their own solutions and be central stakeholders in huma
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Integrating Information Education and Communication Tools to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Among Social Assistance Beneficiaries: Lessons for Indonesia and Beyond
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 56 pp.
"This note aims to help inform the planned development of a Disaster Preparedness Module for Indonesia’s PKH program [Family Hope Program, Program Keluarga Harapan PKH] and to provide lessons for other countries on the development of IEC (Information, Education and Communications) tools to improve
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Media and Disaster Risk Reduction: Advances, Challenges and Potentials
Singapore: Springer (2021), xiii, 249 pp.
"The media is considered to be of utmost importance in all phases of disasters, before, during and after, with different types of media having different proactive roles to play in disaster risk reduction. Before disasters, they play essential roles not only in bringing early warning to people but al
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Disaster Tales as Communication Tool for Increasing Risk Resilience
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, volume 12 (2021), pp. 341-354
"Agencies in charge of flood management use disaster reports (DRs) as the preferred source of information on past flooding events. A systematic survey of DRs prepared by Italian agencies suggests that DRs could be widely enhanced in view of targeting more effective communication to citizens, reinfor
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Fiji Media, Language and Telecommunications Landscape Guide
Australian Aid (AusAID); CDAC Network (2021), 26 pp.
"This guide is a living document that is meant to be used as a starting point when planning and undertaking a campaign prior to (if possible) and during a disaster. It is intended to support the work of the Fiji government and the Fiji Communication and Community Engagement Working Group (CCEWG) in
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An Assessment of Malawi Media in Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of Cyclone Idai
Harare: UNESCO; Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) (2021), 32 pp.
"A number of issues have been raised in this report that will help the media to improve on service delivery in disaster-related issues and to be prepared in disaster management. Not only the media has vowed to improve but also government institutions, humanitarian response organizations and media st
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