Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Overview of communication challenges and best-practice analyses -- Preparing for effective communications during disasters : lessons from a world health organization quality improvement project / Laura N. Medford-Davis and G. Bobby Kapur -- Information dissemination analysis of different media towards the application for disaster pre-warning / Nan Zhang, Hong Huang, Boni Su, Jinlong Zhao, and Bo Zhang -- The effectiveness of disaster risk communication : a systematic review of intervention studies / Declan T. Bradley, Marie McFarland, and Mike Clarke -- Near-real-time analysis of publicly communicated disaster response information / Trevor Girard, Friedemann Wenzel, Bijan Khazai, Tina Kunz-Plapp, James E. Daniell, and Susan A. Brink -- The internet and social media -- The future of social media use during emergencies in australia : insights from the 2014 australian and new zealand disaster and emergency management conference social media workshop / Olga Anikeeva, Malinda Steenkamp, and Paul Arbon -- Resilient disaster network based on software defined cognitive wireless network technology / Goshi Sato, Noriki Uchida, and Yoshitaka Shibata -- Web 2.0 and internet social networking : a new tool for disaster management? lessons from taiwan / Cheng-Min Huang, Edward Chan, and Adnan A. Hyder -- Mobile phones and other technology -- Global health and natural disaster alerts : preparing mobile phones to endure the unthinkable / Wladimir J. Alonso, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, and Ghassem R. Asrar -- What it takes to get passed on : message content, style, and structure as predictors of retransmission in the boston marathon bombing response / Jeannette Sutton, C. Ben Gibson, Emma S. Spiro, Cedar League, Sean M. Fitzhugh, and Carter T. Butts -- Understanding the challenges to effective communication -- Leveraging public health nurses for disaster risk communication in fukushima city: a qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parenting counseling and peer discussions / Aya Goto, Rima E. Rudd, Alden .Y Lai, Kazuki Yoshida, Yuu Suzuki, Donald D. Halstead, Hiromi Yoshida-Komiya, and Michael R. Reich -- Communication, perception, and behaviour during a natural disaster involving a "do not drink" and -- A subsequent "boil water" notice : a postal questionnaire study / Gabriella Rundblad, Olivia Knapton, and Paul R. Hunter -- Author notes -- Index.