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How development affects news media coverage of earthquakes: Implications for disaster risk reduction in observing communities
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posted on 2023-11-07, 06:39 authored by Thomas JamiesonThomas Jamieson, Douglas Van BelleDouglas Van BellePrevious research suggests that lesson-drawing news coverage of disasters can create windows of opportunity for policy learning in the observing communities. This is especially important for cities facing similar vulnerabilities to disaster-affected communities, where they can learn from their events to pursue disaster risk reduction policies to mitigate against those risks at home. However, little is known about the conditions under which newspapers in at-risk communities provide the type of news coverage necessary for policy learning. Using logistic regression to analyze an original dataset produced from a content analysis of five newspapers' coverage of five earthquakes, we demonstrate that the level of development of the disaster-stricken community systematically influences the nature of news coverage in at-risk communities. These results have important implications for the understanding of urban disaster risk reduction, suggesting that the conditions for bottom-up policy learning are more likely to occur following disasters in wealthier countries.
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Jamieson, T. & Van Belle, D. A. (2019). How development affects news media coverage of earthquakes: Implications for disaster risk reduction in observing communities. Sustainability (Switzerland), 11(7), 1970-1970. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11071970Publisher DOI
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Sustainability (Switzerland)Volume
11Issue
7Publication date
2019-04-01Pagination
1970-1970Publisher
MDPI AGPublication status
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2019-04-03ISSN
2071-1050eISSN
2071-1050Article number
ARTN 1970Language
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disaster risk reductiondevelopmentnews coverage and reportingcontent analysislogistic regressionearthquakesnewspapersinternational communication4701 Communication and Media Studies4407 Policy and Administration47 Language, Communication and Culture44 Human SocietyBasic Behavioral and Social ScienceBehavioral and Social Science11 Sustainable Cities and Communities33 Built environment and design