Communication and catastrophic events : strategic risk and crisis management / edited by H. Dan O'Hair and Mary John O'Hair.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Addressing catastrophes through communication science -- Where is it safe? Questioning education policy, safety, and choices for students traveling internationally during a global health crisis -- Addressing the role of prior experience in the development of risk perceptions, information seeking and processing behaviors during natural disasters -- Enhancing catastrophic event preparedness and response: the inoculation approach -- Communication strategies to initiate and sustain catastrophe compassion -- Social marketing strategy: enhancing preparedness for crises and catastrophic events -- Building risk communication infrastructure by bolstering emergency managers' formal and informal communication networks -- Individual disaster communication following catastrophic mass violence: the case of the pulse nightclub shooting -- Social media misinformation about extreme weather events and climate change: structures, communication processes, and individual factors that influence the diffusion of misinformation -- "The Princeton outbreak": a case study of a university health crisis and implications for communicating science -- Blue or stormy skies? The roles of strategic risk communication in protecting communities before, during, and after severe weather -- Risk and crisis communication: considering catastrophic mudslides in Uganda's bududa district -- Risk, sciences, and health collaborations during cascading and simultaneous disasters -- Communicating inclusively and reliably about climatological and meteorological events: social network analysis, message framing, and communication -- How government leaders use social media during disasters: a scoping review.

"As one of the volumes in the Wiley Blackwell series entitled, Communicating Science in Times of Crises, this and the following fourteen chapters take up the issue of Catastrophes and how these events are manifested and eventually managed through strategic risk and crisis management. In Chapter One, the conceptual groundwork is laid for understanding the semantical properties and implications of the term, Catastrophes. An associated field of study is risk and crisis management and is discussed from a theoretical perspective with some practical observations thrown in from time to time. In the last section of the chapter, a brief synopsis is offered for the remaining fourteen chapters of the book. Catastrophic conditions explored in the book are varied but represent a nice sampling of these events as they have unfolded quite recently"-- Provided by publisher.