edited by D.G.E. Liverman, C.P.G. Pereira, and B. Marker.
London :
Geological Society,
2008.
214 pages :
illustrations, maps (some color) ;
25 cm.
Geological Society special publication ;
no. 305
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Communicating environmental geoscience : introduction / Dave Liverman, Christopher P.G. Pereira and Brian Marker -- Altered priorities ahead; or how to develop fruitful relationships with the media / Ted Nield -- Media and scientific communication: a case of climate change / Maxwell T. Boykoff -- Good and bad practice in the communication of uncertainties associated with the relationship between climate change and weather-related natural disasters / Robert E.T. Ward -- Community participation in natural risk prevention: case histories from Colombia / M. Hermelin and G. Bedoya -- Guidelines for landslide hazard mapping in the Andes: speaking one language -- Lead contamination, the media and risk communication: a case study from the Ribeira Valley, Brazil -- Communicating uncertainty in climate-change adaptation and decision support; further development of the Gdańsk case study / Philipp Schmidt-Thomé and Dorota Kaulbarsz -- GeoSure; a bridge between geology and decision-makers / Jennifer C. Walsby -- The modelling and visualization of digital geoscientific data as a communication aid to land-use planning in the urban environment: an example from the Thames Gateway / K.R. Royse, H.J. Reeves and A.R. Gibson -- Communication in geology : a personal perspective and lessons from volcanic, mining, exploration, geotechnical, police and geoforensic investigations / Laurance J. Donnelly -- Hazard and vulnerability assessment and adaptive planning : mutual and multilateral community-researcher communication, Arctic Canada / Norm R. Catto and Kathleen Parewick -- Communicating geoscience to indigenous people: examples from the Solomon Islands / M.G. Petterson, D. Tolia, S.J. Cronin and R. Addison -- Framing volcanic risk communication within disaster risk reduction : finding ways for the social and physical sciences to work together -- Communicating environmental geoscience; Australian communication pathways / Colin J. Simpson -- Communication of geoscience information in public administration : UK experiences / Brian Marker OBE -- Environmental geoscience; communication challenges / David G.E. Liverman.