Return to ‘a new normal’: Discourses of resilience to natural disasters in Australian newspapers 2006–2010

Mídia e desastres: panorama da produção científica internacional de 1996 a 2016

“…Each of the identified articles was evaluated by its theoretical or methodological approach. The largest proportion of articles published on media and disasters during the period of analysis were case studies (EWART; LAITURI;KODRICH, 2008;LEITCH;BOHENSKY, 2014;MACIAS;HILYARD;FREIMUTH, 2009;PFEFFERBAUM et al, 2003;PRINCIPE, 2015;RODRIGUEZ;TRIANOR;QUARANTELLI, 2006;ZAVESTOSKI et al, 2004), followed by comparative case studies (CUPPLES; GLYNN, 2014;EFFERBAUM;ROSENHOLTZ, 2012;McLAUGHLIN, 2016;PARK;WANG;PINTO, 2016;SONNETT;JOHNSON;DOLAN, 2015); literature review (HOUSTON et al, 2015;POWER, 2013;PFEFFERBAUM et al, 2014;PFEFFERBAUM et al, 2015); and construction of theoretical models (SUSMAYADI et al, 2014).…”

“…Debates on the media and disasters, taking into account the type of disasters, focused on the categories of: Environmental disasters (CUPPLES; GLYNN, 2014;EWART;PFEFFERBAUM;ROSENHOLTZ, 2012;LAITURI;KODRICH, 2008;LEITCH;BOHENSKY, 2014;MACIAS;HILYARD;FREIMUTH, 2009;McLAUGHLIN, 2016;PRINCIPE, 2015;RODRIGUEZ;TRIANOR;QUARANTELLI, 2006;SONNETT;JOHNSON;DOLAN, 2015), with Katrina Hurricane being the most investigated natural disaster; Anthropogenic disasters (PARK; WANG; PINTO, 2016;PFEFFERBAUM et al, 2003;ZAVESTOSKI et al, 2004), with special emphasis on the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in the United States in 2001 and the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011; and lastly the category of Disasters (HOUSTON et al, 2015;POWER, 2013;PFEFFERBAUM et al, 2014;PFEFFERBAUM et al, 2015;SUSMAYADI et al, 2014) which concentrates researches of the two previous groups.…”

“…Other studies (HOUSTON et al, 2015;LEITCH;BOHENSKY, 2014;McLAUGHLIN, 2016;PRINCIPE, 2015;SONNETT;JOHNSON;DOLAN, 2015) have given particular attention to narratives of media coverage of disasters. Issues such as religion, race and resilience are a point of interest in media reports.…”

“…Guion, Scammon and Borders (2007) argue that media as well as being one of the most important vehicles for the distribution of information on certain risks and dangers to people, is used extensively during the various stages of a tragedy. In this sense, Leitch and Bohensky (2014) indicate that the media should also contribute to individual and community preparedness, help identify potential threats, enable communities to tap into local potential and experiences to adapt to crises, disasters and other challenges, as well as provide a forum for community planning on post-disaster reconstruction.…”

Resilience of Social-ecological Systems to Human Perturbation: Assessing Dongting Lake in China

“…The new hydrological conditions during the period of the dam's operation may cause a regime shift for the lake. Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake -the In recent years, resilience research is experiencing a period of boom during which its coverage was extended from ecological systems (as first introduced by Holling in 1973) to SESs (Xu & Marinova, 2013;Leitch & Bohensky, 2014). This includes research focussed on aquatic systems, coral reefs, agriculture, cities and catchment management (Carpenter, Ludwig, & Brock, 1999;Nystrom, Folke, & Mogerg, 2000;Cabell & Oelofse, 2012;Newman, Beatley, & Boyer, 2009;Walker, Abel, Anderies, & Ryan, 2009).…”