Resilience has become an important concept in the fields of emergency and disaster
management. Despite the increased use of resilience in the academic and public policy …

Disabled people are highly susceptible to climate change impacts and disasters, yet they
often remain sidelined or largely invisible. Policy makers, humanitarian agencies, and …

Although individuals with physical disabilities have special needs regarding preparedness
for a natural or human-made disaster, little is known about the factors involved in motivating …

Background The global COVID-19 pandemic has posed a major threat to human life and
health, and new media technologies have intensified the spread of risk perception. Purpose …

Introduction: Deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL) with low self-perceived
ability to understand spoken information face inequitable access to health care due to …

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires, and this risk is particularly acute and
severe for people with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to understand the challenges …

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying “infodemic” lend new urgency to
the study and practice of risk communication. Especially prior to the distribution of vaccines …

This paper examines the ways that disaster risk information and communication is received,
shared, and acted upon by deaf-led organizations in Việt Nam, and the nature of deaf …

Background This study aimed to identify communication barriers between health care
workers (HCWs) and deaf and hard‐of‐hearing (DHH) patients. Both perspectives are …

While a growing body of research within the environmental hazards scholarship examines
how disability affects human responses to major, sudden-onset environmental disasters …