A key concept in this research is that communicating a portion of this information to the public should be a core function of any disaster management system.
The disaster recovery goal "is for survivors to regain stability in their lives, livelihoods, and housing" (Maly and Shiozaki 2012, p. 56), whereas the goal of reconstruction is to "build a safe city," "pursue an ideal city," and "[recover] the functions of a disaster-stricken area and [restore] normal lives to disaster victims" (Murosaki 2007, p. 330).
After a brief review of genre theory, the authors outline the seven functions of the "rhetoric of disaster" and provide multiple examples of their application to public relations activity and its news coverage.
The essay concludes with questions that practitioners may use proactively in the development of copy points to address each of the rhetoric of disaster's functions.
At present, the evaluation of earthquake evacuation capacity is short of effective methods in earthquake engineering, which not only affect the earthquake disaster prevention function of all kinds of resources, but also influence the refuge after the earthquake.
After all, you can't function very well if you live in daily fear of disaster.
But the system, as it stands, functions every day on the very razor's edge of disaster.
All the things that we equate with the core functions of government, from disaster relief, armies, interrogations, jails, border patrol, all these types of things are all for-profit businesses that are kind of a part of the government, but not really.
The evaluation of disaster resilience is based on dimensionless analytical functions related to the variation of functionality during a period of interest, including the losses in the disaster and the recovery path.
