Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience: Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 45)

This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute context of new technologies, a new focus on resiliency, and global environmental change. It includes contributions from experts from around the globe whose research, advocacy, teaching, work, or service in the natural or social sciences deals with risk communication and/or management surrounding natural and technological disasters, with a particular focus on climate change-related phenomena. Resilience and good communication are intimately linked and with climate change precipitating more numerous and onerous weather-related catastrophes, a conversation on resilience is timely and necessary. The goal is robust communities that are able to withstand the shock of disaster. Communicating well under ordinary circumstances is challenging; communicating during a crisis is extraordinarily difficult. This book is dedicated to all those who have directly or indirectly suffered the effects of climate change end extreme events with the hope that the advance of knowledge, implementation of sound science and appropriate policies and use of effective communication will help in reducing their vulnerability while also improving resilience in the face of often devastating natural and technological disasters. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Introduction: An Overview of Crisis Communication....Pages 1-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Crisis and Risk Communications: Best Practices Revisited in an Age of Social Media....Pages 27-36 Polluted Discourse: Communication and Myths in a Climate of Denial....Pages 37-54 Public Perceptions of Global Warming: Understanding Survey Differences....Pages 55-63 Building Interfaces That Work: A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation....Pages 65-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Fostering Resilience in the Face of an Uncertain Future: Using Scenario Planning to Communicate Climate Change Risks and Collaboratively Develop Adaptation Strategies....Pages 79-94 Barriers to Using Climate Information: Challenges in Communicating Probabilistic Forecasts to Decision-Makers....Pages 95-113 Modelling Climate-Sensitive Disease Risk: A Decision Support Tool for Public Health Services....Pages 115-130 Shallow Landslide Hazard Mapping for Davao Oriental, Philippines, Using a Deterministic GIS Model....Pages 131-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Comparative Analysis of Virtual Relief Networks and Communication Channels During Disaster Recovery After a Major Flood in Galena, Alaska, Spring 2013....Pages 151-171 Development of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan as a Mining Social Responsibility Practice....Pages 173-187 Controlling Environmental Crisis Messages in Uncontrollable Media Environments: The 2011 Case of Blue-Green Algae on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees, OK....Pages 189-204 Characteristics of Extreme Monsoon Floods and Local Land Use in the Lower Mekong Basin, Cambodia....Pages 205-221 The Value of Earth Observations: Methods and Findings on the Value of Landsat Imagery....Pages 223-237 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Carbon Offsets in California: Science in the Policy Development Process....Pages 241-254 Fostering Educator Resilience: Engaging the Educational Community to Address the Natural Hazards of Climate Change....Pages 255-265 Communicating Uncertainty: A Challenge for Science Communication....Pages 267-278 Science Diplomacy in the Geosciences....Pages 279-294 Stormy Seas, Rising Risks: Assessing Undisclosed Risk from Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge at Coastal US Oil Refineries....Pages 295-308 Back Matter....Pages 309-311