Economic losses from disasters are now reaching an average of US$250--$300 billion a year. In the last 20 years, more than 530,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather events; millions more were seriously injured. Most of the deaths and serious injuries were in developing countries....

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have...

Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has gathered together other leading experts to apply organization theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk management. There are no prescriptions for...

Titel -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Teil I Grundlagen -- 1 Warum überhaupt Krisenkommunikation? -- 2 Krisenökonomie -- 3 Risikokommunikation ist nicht Krisenkommunikation -- 4 Die Angst im Kopf: wie Krisen wahrgenommen werden -- 5 Gewusst wie: die sechs Faktoren der Krise -- 6 Wie...