International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 7 Issue 1

Communication research to build societal resilience

Judy Burnside-Lawry, Peter Rogers

A stakeholder approach to building community resilience: awareness to implementation

Judy Burnside-Lawry, Luis Carvalho

The paper aims to examine one local government’s efforts to increase local-level engagement in building community disaster resilience. Presenting the empirical evidence of…

Realtime emergency communication in virtual worlds

Lisa Dethridge, Brian Quinn

This paper aims to examine how media play a role in community responses to disaster. The authors explore how communication technology may allow new relationships between community…

The space between us: Twitter and crisis communication

Philip Pond

A key concept within the wider practice of crisis informatics is situational awareness, which refers to the way that social media can be used to provide local, situation-specific…

Beyond transmission: An analysis of communication frameworks in Australian bushfire preparedness

Yoko Akama, Vanessa Cooper, Bernard Mees

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and critique frameworks of communication in Australian bushfire management. Achieving bushfire preparedness is a complex process that…

Information volunteers’ strategies in crisis communication: The case of Mt. Merapi eruption in Indonesia 2010

Kurniawan Adi Saputro

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study on the communication strategies used by the information volunteers of Jalin Merapi during the Mt. Merapi disaster in Indonesia…