Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience (eBook)

The Role of Communication in Fostering Resilient Communities.- Reframing the Climate Change Conversation with a New Focus on Resilience by Jeanette Drake (University of Findlay) Using Scenarios in Risk Assessment and Climate Change Communication by Scott T. Rupp (Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning).- Come In, the Water’s Not Fine: Engaging the Public in Water Science and Policy by Jennifer Arrigo (CUHSI, NSF).- Before the Disaster: Prediction, Preparation, and Crisis Communication.- Modelling Climate-Sensitive Disease Risk to Inform Public Health Decision Making by Rachel Lowe (The Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences).- Shallow Landslide Hazard Mapping for Davao Oriental, Philippines Using a Deterministic GIS Model by Ian Alejandrino (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, Dept. of Science and Technology).- A Probabilistic Approach to Risk Mapping for Mt. Etna by Vena Pearl Bonglan (Dept. of Computer Science, University of the Philippines Diliman).- The Value of Earth Observations: Methods and Findings on the Value of Landsat Imagery by Holly Miller (U.S. Geological Survey).- Mitigating Circumstances: Living Through Change, Uncertainty, and Disaster.- Taking a Stand: A Case Study of Scientists Participating in Policy Development of Carbon Offsets by Danny Cullenward (University of California Berkeley).- An Open Systems.- Approach to Communicating and Implementing Air Pollution Policy by Julia Schmale (IASS, Potsdam).- Good Neighbors: A Case Study of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Industry by Alexandra Masaitis (University of Nevada, Reno).- After the Disaster: Response and Recovery Communication.- Looking Back and Learning Forward: Best and Worst Practices Exposed.- Contaminating Environmental Communication: Misinformation.- Techniques Used to Muddle Issues of Science and Regulation by Carrol Linnit (DeSmog, Canada).- Communicating Global Change and Natural Hazards to the Educational Community by Minda Berbeco (National Center for Science Education).- Communicating Uncertainty in Museum Environments by Simon Schneider (Geotechnologien).