This book examines the impending Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami from a communications perspective, using similar experiences of natural disaster preparedness and outcomes as case studies. It is an interdisciplinary consideration of how communities communicate and make sense of natural disasters.
This book examines the impending Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami from a communications perspective, using similar experiences of natural disaster preparedness and outcomes as case studies. It is an interdisciplinary consideration of how communities communicate and make sense of natural disasters.
C. Vail Fletcher is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Portland.
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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
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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