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Climate Change in the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty

James Painter

London; New York: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xvi, 173 pp.

"Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the ‘risks‘ posed by climate change rather than the ‘uncertainties‘ can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger ... more

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Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness: A Training Handbook

New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Indo-German Environment Partnership Programme (IGEP) (2012), viii, 122 pp.

"The main objective of the media component of the Environmental Planning and Disaster Risk Management (EPDRM) programme of GIZ in India is to enable journalists to better and more efficiently perform their roles, functions and tasks in the context of disaster risk management, i.e. information to the ... public, awareness building with regard to disaster risks and preparedness, warning in case of disasters, information on response, relief and reconstruction. In order to achieve this objective, the project has been planned under different components, viz., orientation workshops for the practicing journalists in different high-on-disaster-risk states; facilitating a virtual platform for information exchange and knowledge sharing among participants from the orientation workshops as well as other experts; and developing curriculum on reporting disaster for the journalism students of various Indian journalism institutes. Orientation workshops were conducted in seven states (Tamilnadu, Odisha, Gujarat, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Assam and Punjab) during 2010-2011. A Facebook community and a web portal have been established to facilitate the virtual exchange among the journalists and thematic experts. In order to extend awareness and capacity building activities related to disasters to journalists, the project also facilitated development of a curriculum on reporting disaster to be used in journalism departments of universities and media training institutes. A core-group of experts and trainers from media training institutes, as well as from other relevant organizations was formed, which deliberated upon the overall structure and outline of the DRR curriculum required to be introduced to the students of journalism. A team of authors and editors had then put together the contents of the curriculum along with guidance on how to use the contents, which is being produced in the form of this handbook. This curriculum was piloted in September this year, with journalism students in the North Eastern Region of India, and inputs on the training methods used were also received from faculty members during a ToT of this curriculum. This Training Handbook on "Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness" provides basic concepts, case studies, and examples that can be customized as a module in a course or an entire course as part of the overall curriculum of a journalism course in Indian universities and institutes." (Preface) more

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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: Key Messages

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2012), 64 pp.

"DRR (Disaster risk reduction) advocates are increasingly asked by government and local partners what the exact scope and content of their subject is, and to explain, beyond generalities, the ‘actionable risk reduction messages.’ Key messages comprise the core, common and comprehensive informati ... more

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Disaster Through a Different Lens: Behind Every Effect, There is a Cause. A Guide for Journalists Covering Disaster Risk Reduction

Brigitte Leoni

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) United Nations; European Commission’s Humanitarian aid and Civil Protection Directorate General (ECHO) (2011), 188 pp.

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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Guide

Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2011), 74 pp.

"This guide sets out approaches and tools for public awareness and public education in disaster risk reduction already widely in use by National Societies. It pulls together a range of research on risk communications and public education for behaviour change, and practitioners’ own discoveries in ... more

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Guidelines for the Production of Radio Programmes on Disaster Risk Management

Ram Chandra Neupane

Kathmandu: Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal (ACORAB) (2010), 19 pp.

"There are various risks at the local level. On one hand, Nepal lies on a seismically active zone and has a fragile geological structure and, on the other hand, proper policies, government access to rural and remote places, and public awareness and knowledge are lacking. There is an urgent need for ... more

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Voices of Ethnic Minority Children: Participatory Video on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change in Vietnam

Tamara Plush, Nguyen Trong Ninh

Plan International (2010), 10 pp.

"This booklet documents the participatory video methodology as an affordable and easy-to-use video tool enabling community members to record their experience and strengthen their own knowledge on disaster risks and climate change, as well as to increase their capacity to act on that knowledge and se ... more

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Periodismo público en la gestión del riesgo

Ana María Miralles

Lima: Comunidad Andina; Proyecto Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina (PREDECAN) (2009), 116 pp.

"El texto resalta la necesidad de dejar de culparle a la naturaleza como la responsable de los desastres, y asumir que los riesgos son procesos construidos socialmente. Es decir, que para que el riesgo exista se necesitan fenómenos peligrosos y condiciones de vulnerabilidad que son generadas por lo ... more

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Cubrimiento periodístico de la gestión del riesgo en la subregión andina: Discursos periodísticos y perspectivas desde la comunicación para el cambio social

Rafael Obregón, Jesús Arroyave, Marta Milena Barrios

Lima: Comunidad Andina; Proyecto Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina (PREDECAN) (2009), 72 pp.

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Know Disaster, Tell Disaster Risk Reduction: Training Handbook for Media Professionals

Kobe: SEEDS Asia; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction United Nations (2009), 57 pp.

"This handbook will help media practitioners to conceptualize the risks, expand their knowledge on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction in their current programmes, and design and develop appropriate programmes to communicate the risk with their audiences. Efforts were made to ensure that loca ... more

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Effective Risk Communication: A Message-Centered Approach

Timothy L. Sellnow, Robert R. Ulmer, Matthew W. Seeger, Robert S. Littlefield

New York: Springer (2009), xi, 185 pp.

"The overlying purpose of this book is to construct a communication based approach to risk communication. In doing so, this book establishes a message-centered focus to risk communication. Section one of the book establishes definitions and parameters of risk communication, identifies the complex au ... more

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Periodismo y comunicación para la gestión de riesgo en la subregión andina: Discursos periodísticos y perpsectivas para un enfoque prospectivo y preventivo

Rafael Obregón, Jesús Arroyave, Marta Milena Barrios

Folios (Universidad de Antioquia), issue 23 (2008), pp. 105-135

"El presente artículo analiza los discursos periodísticos y la representación de temas claves vinculados a la gestión del riesgo de desastres en cuatro países de la subregión Andina. El estudio se apoya en elementos teóricos de la investigación en medios y periodismo, tales como Agenda Setti ... more

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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
Inspiring Practice

Nalaka Gunawardene, Frederick Noronha (eds.)

Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok; Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.

"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res ... more

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ICT for Disaster Management

Chanuka Wattegama

Incheon; Bangkog: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP); Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) UNDP (2007), 47 pp.

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Preventive Journalism and Coverage of Risk Situations: A Media Professional's Guide to Avian Influenza

Brasilia: ANDI (2007), 51 pp.

"This publication is intended to serve as a guide to journalists in different media segments on preventive, risk, and crisis communication. Although the focus is on a potential future influenza pandemic in Latin America arising from avian flu, the pages that follow set forth concepts and tools to as ... more