Overview
- Presents seminal works in the emerging field of media and disaster risk reduction
- Provides cutting-edge knowledge in media roles in disaster risk reduction
- Includes examples from the most disaster-prone region: Asia
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview
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Media Types and Its Role
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Examples and Issues Related to Role of Media
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About this book
The media is considered to be of utmost importance in all phases of disasters, before, during and after, with different types of media having different proactive roles to play in disaster risk reduction. Before disasters, they play essential roles not only in bringing early warning to people but also in enhancing their perception of the need to take action. At during- and post-disaster response recovery phases, community radio and social media are the key. These necessitate a resilient media infrastructure as the core of uninterrupted coverage.
Media literacy has become an important issue for several stakeholders, including governments. In addition, more focus is placed on media governance to look at the priorities of disaster risk reduction initiatives within the media. All of these are considered to lead to trust in the media, which further improves people’s disaster response actions based on information from the media, before and during disasters.
Covering different aspects of media, this book is a valuable source for students, researchers, academics, policy-makers and development practitioners.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Suvendrini Kakuchi is a Sri Lankan journalist and author based in Tokyo. She focuses on development journalism covering such issues as education, environment, disasters, gender and conflict resolution. Her long reporting career of more than 30 years has spanned South Asia and the Asia Pacific region, and her work comprises writing for traditional media and research-based publications and books. Among her disaster reporting assignments from the field is the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, and the Great East Japan disaster in 2011. She has also produced disaster risk-reduction publications, documentary films, and journalist training, and has developed media manuals with guidelines for news editors making assignments on disasters.
Miki Yamaji is pursuing her graduate studies on media and governance at Keio University. She is also a senior producer at NHK Educational, conducting several programs on disaster education. In her earlier career, she had long experience as an editor for a publishing company and also as a journalist for a newspaper company in Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media and Disaster Risk Reduction
Book Subtitle: Advances, Challenges and Potentials
Editors: Rajib Shaw, Suvendrini Kakuchi, Miki Yamaji
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0285-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0284-9Published: 17 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0287-0Published: 18 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0285-6Published: 16 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Media and Communication, Governance and Government, Social Media