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Title:
Natural disasters and risk communication : implications of the Cascadia subduction zone megaquake / [edited by] C. Vail Fletcher, Jennette Lovejoy.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Natural disaster warning systems--Northwest, Pacific.
Natural disasters--Risk management--Northwest, Pacific.
Earthquakes--Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Emergency communication systems.
Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Emergency management.
Preparedness.
Other Authors:
Fletcher, Courtney Vail, 1979- editor.
Lovejoy, Jennette, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Kathryn Schulz -- Conceptualizing risk: media coverage and natural disasters / Jennette Lovejoy -- Part I. Cascadia subduction Zone: geological background and predicting preparedness in the Pacific Northwest: Cascadia earthquake science and hazards / Robert F. Butler -- Risk perception and earthquake preparedness motivation: Predicting responses to a Cascadia Subduction Zone catastrophic event / Bradley Adame and Claude Miller -- Part II. Confronting risk information: rhetorical framing in the media and stages of crisis: The article that shook the public: a comparative study of "the really big one" and other earthquake coverage / Julie Homchick Crowe -- A "fast and frugal" approach to risk judgment and decision-making and its implications for natural disaster / Kai Kuang -- Part III. Local and global case studies: analyzing demographic, attitude, and economic factors in natural disasters: Public risk perception attitudes on flooding by different societal sectors: an investigation based on the August 2016 flood in Louisiana / Do Kyn Kim and Phillip Madison -- Economic evaluation of multi-hazard risk information in Japan: implication for earthquake risk communication / Hiroaki Matsuura and Keiichi Sato -- Part IV. Community, organizing, and resilience: pragmatic considerations: Families, companion nonhuman animals, and the CSZ disaster: implications for crisis and risk communication / Julie M. Novak and Ashleigh Day -- What is to be done?--a preparedness polemic / Yianni Doulis -- Conclusion: Naure, fear, and bewilderment: a human (dis)connect / C. Vail Fletcher -- Epilogue / Chris Goldfinger.
ISBN:
1498556116
9781498556118
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1027833168
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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