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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-3-2019
Publication Title
Sustainability
Volume
11
Issue
7
First Page
1
Last Page
26
Abstract
Previous 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.
Recommended Citation
Jamieson, Thomas and Van Belle, Douglas A., "How Development Affects News Media Coverage of Earthquakes: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction in Observing Communities" (2019). Public Administration Faculty Publications. 87.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/pubadfacpub/87
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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
https://doi.org/10.3390/su11071970