Natural disasters and risk communication : implications of the cascadia subduction zone megaquake /: implications of the cascadia subduction zone megaquake. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by C. Vail Fletcher, Jennette Lovejoy.
• Authors: Fletcher, C. Vail
• Editors: Fletcher, C. Vail; Lovejoy, Jenette
• Contents: Acknowledgements ; Foreword ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Kathryn Schulz ; 1. Introduction ; Conceptualizing Risk: Media Coverage and Natural Disasters ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Jennette Lovejoy ; ; Part 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone: Geological Background and Predicting Preparedness in the Pacific Northwest ; ; 2. Cascadia Earthquake Science and Hazards ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Robert F. Butler ; 3. Risk Perception and Earthquake Preparedness Motivation: Predicting Responses to a Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Event ; <span style="font-style:italic;">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 ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Julie Homchick Crowe ; 5. A “Fast and Frugal” Approach to Risk Judgment and Decision-Making and its Implications for Natural Disaster ; <span style="font-style:italic;">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 ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Do Kyun Kim and Phillip Madison ; 7. Economic Evaluation of Multi-Hazard Risk Information in Japan: Implication for Earthquake Risk Communication ; <span style="font-style:italic;">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 ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Julie M. Novak and Ashleigh Day ; 9. What is to be Done?—A Preparedness Polemic ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Yianni Doulis ; 10. Nature, Fear, and Bewilderment: An Anthropcenic (Dis)Connect ; <span style="font-style:italic;">C. Vail Fletcher ; ; Epilogue ; <span style="font-style:italic;">Chris Goldfinger ; ; Index ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.346; Natural disasters -- Risk assessment; Risk communication; Earthquakes; Cascadia Subduction Zone
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498556125
• Related ISBNs: 9781498556118
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