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Communicating Disasters:
Seeking Common Ground for Media and Disaster Managers:
Entire Book is Now Online!





Subject: Communicating Disasters - entire book is now online!
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha <fredericknoronha@...>
Date: Sat, January 5, 2008 08:31
To: media@...



George, kindly circulate... Thanks! FN

Dear all, I'd like to share with you
details of a book I've co-edited with
Nalaka Gunawardene of Sri Lanka.
The book is available for free download.
It deals with media and disasters. FN
Frederick [FN] Noronha
<fredericknoronha@...>




From: Nalaka Gunawardene,
TVE Asia Pacific <nalaka@...>
Date: 5 Jan 2008 17:01
Subject: Communicating Disasters:
entire book is now online!


To: All authors who contributed chapters or appendices

All photographers whose images we have used

(with photo credit)

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that the
entire book has now been placed online
for free access. Visit:
http://www.tveap.org/disastercomm/

For authors who have not received their
copies yet, these are being dispatched
now and will be reaching you during this
month.

A brief note about the entire project
and its outcomes is given below.

We once again thank you for your
participation in this project, and wish
you a safe and productive 2008!


Nalaka

* * * * * *

*Communicating Disasters
Seeking common ground for media and
disaster managers*


Disaster relief agencies acknowledge
the mass media's key role at times of
distress and disaster. Yet, journalists
and managing disasters don't always
cooperate when crisis breaks. There is
often tension and misunderstandings.
Communicating about disasters sometimes
becomes communication disasters.


How can these two groups support each
other's needs in the greater public
interest?


What value addition can new information and
communication technologies

(ICTs)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Information_and_Communications_Technology>

bring in? How can participatory communication
help create communities that are better
prepared to respond to disasters?


In 2006, TVE Asia Pacific

<http://www.tveap.org/about/about.htm>

collaborated with the UNDP
Regional Centre in Bangkok

<http://regionalcentrebangkok.undp.or.th/>

to launch a project that explored these and
related questions. Communicating Disasters
sought the common ground where public and
citizen media can support the work of
humanitarian workers and disaster
specialists. The project comprised a regional
brainstorming meeting and a resource book.


*The Brainstorming:
*The Asian regional brainstorming on
'Communicating Disasters: Building on the
tsunami experience and responding to
future challenges'

<http://www.tveap.org/news/0701med_les.html>

was held on 21-22 December 2006 in
Bangkok, Thailand.

It brought together 33 leading media
professionals, disaster managers and
communication specialists from South
and Southeast Asia to probe the role
of the mass media and communication in
times of disaster inspired crises and
emergencies.


Read the final Report of the meeting- Report
(2 MB)

<http://www.tveap.org/disastercomm/
Communicating%20Disasters%20-%20Bkk%
20Meeting%20Dec%202006%20-%20Report.pdf>


*The Book: **Communicating Disasters:
An Asia Pacific Resource Book*
(Edited by Nalaka Gunawardene

<http://movingimages.wordpress.com/>

and Frederick Noronha

<http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com/>

with a Foreword by Sir Arthur C Clarke

<http://www.clarkefoundation.org/acc/biography.php>)

was published in December 2007.


It is a multi-author book that discusses how
information, education and communication can
help create disaster resilient communities
across the Asia Pacific region, home to half
of humanity. It also takes a critical look at
the communication lessons of the Indian Ocean
tsunami of December 2004, and explores the
role of good communications before, during and
after disasters.


The book comprises 160 pages (17.3 cm x 24.4 cm)
and contains 19 chapters authored by 21
contributors, plus 7 appendices. It is
co-published by TVE Asia Pacific

<http://www.tveap.org/about/about.htm>

and UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok

<http://regionalcentrebangkok.undp.or.th/>


Download the entire book for
free!

<http://www.tveap.org/disastercomm/0801dis.html>


Read TVEAP news item on the book's release
(14 December 2007)

<http://www.tveap.org/news/0712com.html>


Communicating Disasters contents at a glance

<http://www.tveap.org/news/0712com_content.html>


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Frederick Noronha
http://fn.goa-india.org
Ph +91-832-2409490


Links from Goa:
http://goalinks.livejournal.com/


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