Climate change and more frequent severe storms have caused persistent flooding, storm surges, erosion in the northeastern coastal region of United States. These weather-related disasters continued to generate negative environmental consequences across many communities. This study examined how residents’ exposure flood risk information seeking behavior were related their threat appraisal, threat...

how does a journalist or an editor decide which news is worthy and which is not? according to some media researchers, they refer to a set of news values. one of the best known lists of such news values have been supplied by johan galtung and marie h. ruge. an analytical discussion on news values always refers to this list, which initially intended to cover international events. these factors i...

In this paper I explore how the evolution of emotional expression and co-operative planning in humans may inform the way they communicate about risks, and what implication this may have for models of rationality in risk communication. In particular, I focus on aspects of human language that enable successful co-ordination around shared tasks that involve the management of uncertainty by a group...

The aim of this paper is to identify the functions of social co`nition in a communication context[ It is ar`ued that social co`nition is for the re`ulation of adaptive action and makes use of external devices "e[`[ lan`ua`e# to implement action[ First\ the complexity of communication as a social achievement is discussed to prepare the `round for examinin` the link between lan`ua`e\ co`nition an...