Natural disasters and risk communication : implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone megaquake

Author(s)

• Fletcher, C. Vail
• Lovejoy, Jennette

Bibliographic Information

Natural disasters and risk communication : implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone megaquake

[edited by] C. Vail Fletcher, Jennette Lovejoy

（Environmental communication and nature : conflict and ecoculture in the anthropocene）

Lexington Books, c2018

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Natural Disasters and Risk Communication: Implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Megaquake asks and addresses how we communicate about natural disasters and what effect our communication has on natural disaster education, understanding, assessment of risk, preparation, and recovery. The chapters of this book present expertise, analyses, and perspectives that are designed to help us better comprehend and deal with the natural risks such as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It seeks to move past primal, fear-induced physiological and emotional responses to crises with the understanding that if we accept that the disaster will occur, expect it, and learn how we can prepare, we can calm the collective panicked beats of our hearts as we wait for its first tremors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Kathryn Schulz 1. Introduction Conceptualizing Risk: Media Coverage and Natural Disasters Jennette Lovejoy Part 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone: Geological Background and Predicting Preparedness in the Pacific Northwest 2. Cascadia Earthquake Science and Hazards Robert F. Butler 3. Risk Perception and Earthquake Preparedness Motivation: Predicting Responses to a Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Event Bradley Adame and Claude Miller Part 2: Confronting Risk Information: Rhetorical Framing in the Media and Stages of Crisis 4. The article that shook the public: A comparative study of "The Really Big One" and other earthquake news coverage Julie Homchick Crowe 5. A "Fast and Frugal" Approach to Risk Judgment and Decision-Making and its Implications for Natural Disaster Kai Kuang Part 3: Local and Global Case Studies: Analyzing Demographic, Attitude and Economic Factors in Natural Disasters 6. Public risk perception attitudes on flooding by different societal sectors: An investigation based on the August 2016 flood in Louisiana Do Kyun Kim and Phillip Madison 7. Economic Evaluation of Multi-Hazard Risk Information in Japan: Implication for Earthquake Risk Communication Hiroaki Matsuura and Keiichi Sato Part 4: Community, Organizing, and Resilience: Pragmatic Considerations 8. Families, Companion Animals, and the CSZ Disaster: Implications for Crisis and Risk Communication Julie M. Novak and Ashleigh Day 9. What is to be Done?-A Preparedness Polemic Yianni Doulis 10. Nature, Fear, and Bewilderment: An Anthropcenic (Dis)Connect C. Vail Fletcher Epilogue Chris Goldfinger Index About the Contributors

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Details

• NCID: BB29447093
• ISBN:
  • 9781498556118
• LCCN: 2018933620
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lanham
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 266 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GB5030
  • DC23 : 363.34/72
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Natural disaster warning systems -- Northwest, Pacific
  • LCSH : Natural disasters -- Risk management -- Northwest, Pacific
  • LCSH : Earthquakes -- Cascadia Subduction Zone
  • LCSH : Emergency communication systems
  • LCSH : Natural disasters -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Cascadia Subduction Zone
  • LCSH : Emergency management
  • LCSH : Preparedness
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB29447049