Natural Disasters and Risk Communication

C. Vail Fletcher is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Portland. Jennette Lovejoy is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Portland.

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Kathryn Schulz
1. Introduction
Conceptualizing Risk: Media Coverage and Natural Disasters
Jennette Lovejoy

Part 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone: Geological Background and Predicting Preparedness in the Pacific Northwest

2. Cascadia Earthquake Science and Hazards
Robert F. Butler
3. Risk Perception and Earthquake Preparedness Motivation: Predicting Responses to a Cascadia Subduction Zone Catastrophic Event
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
Julie Homchick Crowe
5. A “Fast and Frugal” Approach to Risk Judgment and Decision-Making and its Implications for Natural Disaster
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
Do Kyun Kim and Phillip Madison
7. Economic Evaluation of Multi-Hazard Risk Information in Japan: Implication for Earthquake Risk Communication
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
Julie M. Novak and Ashleigh Day
9. What is to be Done?—A Preparedness Polemic
Yianni Doulis
10. Nature, Fear, and Bewilderment: An Anthropcenic (Dis)Connect
C. Vail Fletcher

Epilogue
Chris Goldfinger

Index
About the Contributors