Interpreting flood disasters and flood hazard perceptions from newspaper discourse: Tale of two floods in the Red River valley, Manitoba, Canada

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-45

  Rashid, Harun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Flood hazard perceptions; Media framing; Risk communication; The Red River valley; Winnipeg free Press

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MASS MEDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

RED RIVER [CANADA-UNITED STATES];

EID: 78649447858     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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