How Development Affects News Media Coverage of Earthquakes: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction in Observing Communities

Jamieson, Thomas; Belle, Douglas A. Van

doi:10.3390/su11071970

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“…"Most people do not experience disasters first-hand, but rely on mediated depictions of distant events." (Jamieson and Van Belle, 2019). This is why it is of utmost importance to study the narratives built by the news media when reporting about distant disasters.…”

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“…To reach this goal, we chose to work on the international news, but it would be important to undertake a similar analysis on the national and regional press as well as social media. A recent work by Jamieson and Van Belle (2019) suggested, for instance, that the level of development of the disaster-stricken community influences the nature of news coverage in other at-risk communities: "if an earthquake occurs in a community with a high level of development, the news coverage is much more likely to draw lessons for their community, and less likely to emphasize differences that prevent policy learning".…”

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Seismic risk: the biases of earthquake media coverage

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Abstract. The capacity of individuals to cope with threatening situations depends directly on their capacity to anticipate what will come next. The media should play a key role in that respect, but an extensive analysis of earthquake media coverage by the international news reveals systematic biases. Exploring a corpus of 320 888 news articles published by 32 worldwide newspapers in 2015 in English, Spanish or French, we found that the press covers a very small number of events: 71 % of the news about seismic events was dedicated to only 3 earthquakes (among the 1559 magnitude 5+ events). A combination of frequency and content analysis reveals a typical framing of the “earthquake news”. Except for the “Nepal quake”, the duration of the coverage is usually very short. Thus, the news tends to focus on short-term issues: the event magnitude, tsunami alerts, human losses, material damage and rescue operations. Longer-term issues linked to the recovery, restoration, reconstruction, mitigation and prevention are barely addressed. Preventive safety measures are almost never mentioned. The news on impacts shows a peculiar appetency for death counts, material damage estimates and sensationalism. News on the response tends to emphasize the role played by the international community in helping the “poor and vulnerable”. The scientific content of the coverage is often restricted to mentions of the magnitude, with the concept of the seismic intensity being largely ignored. The notion of the “seismic crisis” also seems unclear, with aftershocks sometimes being treated as isolated events. Secondary hazards are barely mentioned, except in the case of tsunami alerts. Together, these biases contribute to fatalistic judgments that damage cannot be prevented. If scientific messages are to be communicated, they should be broadcast a few hours after an event. Why not take the opportunity to familiarize people with the real timeline of seismic disasters?

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“…Set L as the iteration limit number at the same temperature, and set iteration number l = 1 at the current temperature. To obtain the impedance t a (x a , c a ) of each link, the Frank-Wolfe algorithm [20] is used for distributing traffic flows in an initial transportation system.…”

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“…For post-disaster connectivity of the transportation system, it is not realistic to verify all OD pairs because of the large scale in this case. OD pairs (2,10), (13,17), and (19,20) are selected for analysis.…”

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“…It is necessary to select links [18] of transportation systems for pre-disaster retrofit in order to cope with various disaster scenarios that could occur in disaster risk areas. In a word, for urban disaster risk reduction [19,20] and sustainable development of transportation systems, this paper studies pre-disaster retrofit decisions for transportation systems in urban areas.…”

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Pre-Disaster Retrofit Decisions for Sustainable Transportation Systems in Urban Areas

Zhou¹,

Jiang²,

Qin³

2019

Sustainability

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A transportation system is an important material base for implementing timely rescue and emergency evacuation after disasters in urban areas. In order to reduce disaster risks and develop sustainable transportation systems, it is important to improve their resilience and ensure their reliability. This paper mainly studies pre-disaster retrofit decisions for sustainable transportation systems in urban areas. As the optimization goal, pre-disaster retrofit costs and post-disaster restoration costs under constraints of post-disaster system connectivity, travel time reliability, and post-disaster link capacity are taken into account to construct a bi-level stochastic programming model. A method based on the simulated annealing algorithm and Frank–Wolfe algorithm is used to solve the problem. The case study shows that the calculation is quick, and the result is reasonable. The study result proves that the method proposed in this paper can provide an effective solution to such problems.

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Emergency management and the final frontier: Preparing local communities for falling space debris

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Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Global dependence on satellite technologies, along with expanding space exploration, and commercial space travel have made rocket launches routine modern‐day events. As a result, there is an increasing probability of civilian casualty from rocket launch anomalies, or from falling space debris already in orbit. This study provides an empirical analysis of local emergency management publicly available guidelines for the risks associated with human‐made space hazards, natural space hazards, and unknown space hazards. A multicase approach is utilized with a document analysis of 391 emergency management documents provided by 512 local jurisdictions across the states of California, Florida, Texas, and Virginia. Descriptive statistics and a QGIS vector spatial analysis is conducted to identify high risk counties in close proximity to rocket launch sites. A logit regression model informs us on the relationship between a county containing a rocket launch site or being in close proximity to a launch site and their likelihood of including falling space hazards in their emergency management documents. A significant number of documents mention falling aircrafts, missiles from tornadoes and weapons of mass destruction. Rocket launch anomalies and falling space debris remain outside the scope or imaginability of local emergency management plans.

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How Development Affects News Media Coverage of Earthquakes: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction in Observing Communities

Cited by 13 publications

References 42 publications

Seismic risk: the biases of earthquake media coverage

Seismic risk: the biases of earthquake media coverage

Pre-Disaster Retrofit Decisions for Sustainable Transportation Systems in Urban Areas

Emergency management and the final frontier: Preparing local communities for falling space debris

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