Communications are key to the success of disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Accurate information disseminated to the general public, to

Social media is invaluable during crises like natural disasters, but difficult to analyze. This book shows how computer science can help.

From the tsunami to Hurricane Sandy, the Nepal earthquake to Syrian refugees—defining images and accounts of humanitarian crises are now often created, not by

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. In today’s world, there are new opportunities for disaster communications through modern technology and

Following an earlier NRC workshop on public response to alerts and warnings delivered to mobile devices, a related workshop was held on February 28 and 29, 2012