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 Volume 9, Issue 6 (June 2022), Pages: 125-133

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 Review Paper

 Survival communication under uncertainty and complexity: A review

 Author(s): Hyejeong Park 1, Kihun Nam 1, *, Junsik Lee 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Fire and Disaster Prevention Engineering, Changshin University, Changwon, South Korea
 2Department of Engineering, Changshin University, Changwon, South Korea

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3297-3889

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.06.017

 Abstract:

This study aims to propose the concept of survival communication in arbitrating the comprehension and interpretation of risk information during cascading disasters under uncertainty and complexity. A broad content review and synthesis were conducted based on the literature on notions of risk and crisis communication published before 2015. A concept of survival and communication was framed and discussed through the review of the literature and lessons from two cascading disasters. During cascading disasters, the public may be exposed to massive general risk information through various channels. The information often may not be on time or limited due to the cascading effect, including natural disasters with sequential events, damaged social infrastructure, insufficient information sources, and insufficient expertise knowledge. Accessing and understanding the risk information is key to supporting decision-making on time and disseminating information to protect people by themselves, particularly in a small-scale community. The public may need different information depending on a situation that could help deal with emergencies and decision making, support understanding and interpreting risk information by their language, and apply their knowledge to emergency activities. Based on that, this study proposes a concept of survival communication that is defined as a system that is organized for supporting multi-way communication for disaster risk and emergency information to protect individuals' lives during cascading disasters until the arrival of professional first responders at the disaster scene. Proposed survival communication could enhance disaster literacy on the basis of target-oriented risk information, experiences, wisdom, and local knowledge and reduce risks containing uncertainty and complexity of cascading disasters.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Survival communication, Cascading disaster, Uncertainty, Complexity, Risk communication

 Article History: Received 1 December 2021, Received in revised form 3 April 2022, Accepted 10 April 2022

 Acknowledgment 

This work has been supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2021R1F1A1055898) and the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (No. 2021R1A6A3A01087877).

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Park H, Nam K, and Lee J (2022). Survival communication under uncertainty and complexity: A review. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(6): 125-133

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