Communicating Disasters An Asia Pacific Resource Book
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Opening pages, Contents, Acknowledgements, Co-Publishers information, Preface by Elizabeth Elizabeth Fong, Regional Manager, UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok
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Foreword: Communicating Disasters: A Century of Lessons, by Sir Arthur C Clarke
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Introduction by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha, Editors
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The 2004 Tsunami: Unfinished Story, by Johanna Son, Director, Inter Press Service – Asia Pacific;
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A Candle in My Window, by Peter Griffin, Co-founder, South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
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Nobody Told Us to Run…, by Chanuka Wattegama, Director - organisational development, LIRNEasia
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Children of Tsunami: Documenting Asia’s Longest Year, by Manori Wijesekera and Nalaka Gunawardene, TVE Asia Pacific
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Beyond the Disaster News Template, by Joanne Teoh Kheng Yau, senior producer, Channel News Asia, Singapore
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Surviving the Tsunami: A Journalist's Story, by Frederick Noronha, freelance writer, journalist and ICT activist, India
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Capturing Nature’s Fury, by Shahidul Alam, Founder, Drik Picture Library, Bangladesh
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Stop All the Clocks! Beyond Text: Looking at the Pics, by Max Martin, Journalist and editor of indiadisasters.org
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Seeing Disasters Differently: How to Unearth Real Disaster Stories, by Amjad Bhatti, coordinating editor, South Asia Disaster Report 2005
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Communicating to Save Lives, by Patrick Fuller, Communications Coordinator, IFRC Tsunami Response in Sri Lanka
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Extra Hands in Times of Crisis, by Veronica Balderas, United Nations Volunteers
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Engaging the Media: A Rough Guide, by A S Panneerselvan, Executive Director, Panos South Asia
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Building Bridges: Managers and the Media, by Sanny Jegillos, Rajesh Sharma and Pablo Torrealba, UNDP
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Who's Afraid of Citizen Journalists? by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka
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Bridging the Long ‘Last Mile’, by Nalaka Gunawardene, Director and CEO, TVE Asia Pacific
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Gender and Disasters: Tracing the Link, by Ammu Joseph, independent journalist and author, India
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Healing Broken Hearts, Calming Anguished Minds, by Chin Saik Yoon, founder and publisher, Southbound, Malaysia
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'Critical Mass' for Community Disaster Resilience, by Buddhi Weerasinghe, consultant on disaster risk reduction
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Digging Under the Rubble, by Kalpana Sharma, independent journalist, India
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Appendix 1: Report of the Brainstorming on 'Communicating Disasters: Building on the Tsunami Experience and Responding to Future Challenges': Bangkok, 21 – 22 December 2006
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Appendix 2: List of participants of Bangkok Brainstorming, December 2006
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Appendix 3: Suggested guidelines for more effective engagement of mass media and new media before, during and after disasters
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Appendix 4: Short profiles of contributing authors
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Appendix 5: Reuters AlertNet for Journalists
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Appendix 6: UN/ISDR Media Network on Disaster Risk Reduction
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Appendix 7: UN OCHA ReliefWeb Project
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