Communication research to build societal resilience
Thu, 12 May 2016 09:50:00 BST
Volume 7 Issue 1 of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, edited by GDRC Professors Dilanthi Amaratunga and Richard Haigh has just been published.
Please visit: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/ijdrbe/7/1 to read the editorial and research papers.
Research papers, which are part of this issue 7.1 include:
- A stakeholder approach to building community resilience: awareness to implementation
- Real-time emergency communication in virtual worlds
- The space between us: Twitter and crisis communication
- Beyond transmission: An analysis of communication frameworks in Australian bushfire preparedness
- Information volunteers’ strategies in crisis communication: The case of Mt. Merapi eruption in Indonesia 2010
In 2012, RMIT University invited a multidisciplinary group of 16 scholars from Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand to a research seminar to identify practical, theoretical and conceptual communication issues and challenges associated with increasing the engagement of communities in building resilience to disasters. This special issue, edited by Judy Burnside-Lawry and Peter Rogers presents a selection of papers developed as outcomes from the seminar.
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment is Indexed in: British Library, Construction and Building Abstracts, ICONDA - The International Construction Database, Business Source Premier (EBSCO), ABI INFORM Global (ProQuest), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (ProQuest), INSPEC and SCOPUS.
Coverage details of the journal is available at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijdrbe
If you have any ideas for a paper, which falls, within the scope of the journal, editors are happy to discuss the ideas further with you.
Contact details:
Professor Richard Haigh e-mail; r.haigh@hud.ac.uk
Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga e-mail; d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk
