Risk, Disaster and Crisis Reduction Mobilizing, Collecting and Sharing Information /

• Main Authors: November, Valerie (Author), Leanza, Yvan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Natural disasters.; Health promotion.; Social sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

In the field of risks and crises, both the access to relevant information and its circulation are seen as crucial factors. Based on a new integrated theoretical model focusing on the stakeholder, the book proposes analysis of information reformulation and circulation in risk environments and crisis...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Risk and Information: for a new Conceptual Framework
• A Contemporary Look at Risks: Risks are Plural and Transcalar
• Information as a Process
• Definitions, Classifications and Models
• Reviewing Risk Categories.