Return to 'a new normal': Discourses of resilience to natural disasters in Australian newspapers 2006-2010

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-26

  Leitch, Anne M ^a   Bohensky, Erin L ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Disaster; Media; Resilience

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MEDIA INDUSTRY; MEDIA ROLE; NATURAL DISASTER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84901460799     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.006     Document Type: Article

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