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Preparing for Disasters in Global Cities
(2013)CSS Risk and Resilience ReportsToday, the majority of the globe’s inhabitants live in urban areas. According to all forecasts cities will continue to grow in the coming decades. At the same time, cities have become increasingly connected as a result of economic, political and cultural globalization. In the context of urban security, the growing complexity these connections bring may present a double-edged sword: cities can be both the most secure, or most dangeropus ...Report -
Crisis Mapping in Switzerland
(2013)CSS Risk and Resilience ReportsCrowdsourced crisis maps emerged in the last decade as a series of civil society projects – often launched by small groups or even individual media users with the intention to collect and organize geo-referenced information from a large number of sources during crisis in order to make it useful for emergency managers as well as those people affected by the crisis. The purpose of this study is not only to examine crisis mapping, but more ...Report -
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Using ICT & Social Media in Disasters: Opportunities & Risks for Government
(2013)3RG ReportWhen a crisis is unfolding, people no longer wait for an official statement from government actors; rather they turn to the news media, they go to Twitter or Facebook, they log onto forums and blogs, etc., because they expect information and they can get it quickly from various sources. In such a dynamic information environment, if a government lacks a policy on how to use social media, particularly in crisis situations (meaning it does ...Report -
Focal Report 8: Risk Analysis Using the Internet for Public Risk Communication
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