International Disaster Communications:
Harnessing the Power of Communications to Avert Disasters and Save Lives
Fred H. Cate, Annenberg Senior FellowEditor
Foreword, Pekka TarjannePreface, Fred H. CateThe Media and Disaster Reduction: Roundtable on the
Media, Scientific Information and Disasters at the United Nations World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction,
Fred H. CateThe Media and Disaster Reduction: Continued Communication When It's Needed MostAn Introduction with Four Proposals, David
WebsterNeeded: The Right Information at the Right Time,
Robert D. Vessey and Jose A. AponteNeeded: The Right Information at the Right Time:
ContinuedThe Media and Disasters: Building a Better
Understanding, Brian WenhamThe Role of the Media in Hazard Mitigation and Disaster
Management, Stephen RattienThe Tampere Declaration on Disaster
CommunicationsThe Text of The Tampere Declaration on Disaster
CommunicationsMedia, Disaster Relief and Images of the Developing
World: Strategies for Rapid, Accurate, and Effective Coverage of Complex Stories from Around the Globe, Fred H.
Cate
Figure 1: Linkages Between Communications Technology
and Management of Various Classes of Hazards. 
Figure 2: Disasters of this century, selected to
represent global vulnerability to rapid-onset natural disasters.ContibutorsEndnotes
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Recommended Citation: Fred H. Cate, ed., International Disaster Communications: Harnessing the Power of Communications to Avert Disasters and Save Lives (Washington, D.C.: The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern University, 1994).
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