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Social media-based urban disaster recovery and resilience analysis of the Henan deluge

Siqing Shan, Feng Zhao

Natural Hazards, volume 118 (2023), pp. 377-405

"Measuring disaster resilience from the perspective of long-term recovery ability is important for the planning and construction of urban sustainability, whereas short-term resilient recovery can better reflect a city’s ability to recover quickly after a disaster occurs. This study proposes an ana ... more

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Using mass media to increase audiences’ ability to keep safe from explosive ordnance in Afghanistan

London: BBC Media Action (2023), 2 pp.

"BBC Media Action has been using mass media to help audiences recognise risks and keep safe from explosive ordnance (EO), which is widespread across Afghanistan following years of conflict. We conducted a panel study in 10 most affected provinces to evaluate the impact of our programme. We found tha ... more

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Saving Lives through Effective Flood Warning Communications in Nigeria

Bamidele Olajide

Abuja: Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) (2023), 21 pp.

"This report explores the importance of a robust Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) in Nigeria and the need for effective communication to ameliorate the loss and damage caused by flooding. Following Nigeria’s Floods of 2022, which resulted in over 600 lives lost, 3000 injured, 300 thousand hectare ... more

Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp.

"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected ... more

Disasters and Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Expert News Media

A. Mosurska, A. Clark-Ginsberg, S. Sallu, J. D. Ford

Environnment and Planning E: Nature and Space, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 178-201

"[...] in popular imagination and policy Indigenous peoples often appear to be caricatured and misrepresented, for instance through tropes of Indigenous peoples as custodians of the environment or especially vulnerable to environmental change. These framings matter because they can result in disaste ... more

Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022

London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.

"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops ... more

Global Innovation in Emergency Telecommunications: Strengthening Disaster Response in the Philippines

World Food Programme (WFP) (2023), 6 pp.

Using Videos in Floods and Bushfires to Educate, Signal Risk, and Promote Protectice Action in the Community

Paula Dootson, Erica Kuligowski, Scott Murray

Safety Science, volume 164, issue 106166 (2023), 13 pp.

"Videos are commonly used by emergency services agencies in natural hazard emergencies to communicate to the public about the hazard, its possible risks, and to promote protective action. To evaluate the efficacy of the videos being disseminated and amplified during an event, this research examined ... more

The Role of Bots in Spreading Conspiracies: Case Study of Discourse About Earthquakes on Twitter

Dmitry Erokhin, Nadejda Komendantova

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 92, issue 103740 (2023), 11 pp.

"In this paper, we identified seven most widely spread conspiracy discourses about earthquakes. These conspiracy discourses link earthquakes to military activities like secret nuclear bomb testing, God’s Providence like the punishment of humans for their sins, space activities like aliens visiting ... more

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts

Tobias Ide

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), 291 pp.

Interconnected Disaster Risks

Caitlyn Eberle, Zita Sebesvari, Liliana Narvaez et al.

Bonn: United Nations University (UNU) (2023), 92 pp.

Humanitarian Topics Explained: Forgotten Crises to Go

Eddo Westland

Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA) (2023), 10 pp.

Natural Language Processing for Humanitarian Action: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Path Toward Humanitarian NLP

Roberta Rocca, Nicolo Tamagnone, Selim Fekih, Ximena Contla, Navid Rekabsaz

Frontiers in Big Data, volume 6 (2023), 14 pp.

"Natural language processing (NLP) is a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence, which is concerned with developing methods to process and generate language at scale. Modern NLP tools have the potential to support humanitarian action a ... more

Understanding the Role of Narratives in Humanitarian Policy Change

Patrick Saez, John Bryant

Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) (2023), 36 pp.

"Narratives and frames have greater influence on policy change than facts and figures. They have a critical role to play in leveraging political will for transforming the humanitarian system. Humanitarian organisations have greater power to shape narratives than they are willing to admit. The consta ... more

Chatbots in Humanitarian Contexts: Learning from Practitioner Experiences

Becky Kazansky, Olivia Johnson, Bárbara Paes

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); The Engine Room (2023), 31 pp.

"Since the mid-2010s, chatbots have grown in usage and popularity across the humanitarian sector. While this usage has gained traction, there is scarce information on the collective successes, risks, and trade-offs of this automation. This research addresses this gap, documenting chatbot deployments ... more

The Türkiye–Syria earthquake response six months on: Lessons on communication, community engagement and accountability

London: CDAC Network (2023), 9 pp.

Review of the OECD DAC criteria for evaluating humanitarian action: A mapping of literature, guidance and practice

Jo-Hannah Lavey, Christina Northey, David Poulton et al.

London: ALNAPODI (2023), 108 pp.

Leveraging Social Media and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Risk Management Processes in Europe

Anne Bach Nielsen, Emmanuel Raju, Dario Ramon Landwehr, Juliette Eleonore Nicolai, Tejal Patil, Nina Blom Andersen

LINKS: Strengthening Links between Technologies and Society for European Disaster Resilience (2023), 49 pp.

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Tech Was Supposed to Revolutionize Aid in Haiti: Then Reality Set in. Electronic Payments Were no Match for Devastated Roads and Corruption

Rest of World (2023)

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The Space Between Us: Understanding Trust, Communication and Collaboration Between Media and Humanitarian Organizations in Public Health Emergencies

Rocio Lopez Inigo, Wayne Sharpe, Katherina Thomas

Internews; USAID (2023), 32 pp.