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Narrative Change Around Disability & Climate Change: Insights and Recommendations from Stakeholders and Community Members in the Niger Delta

Olesya Dovgalyuk, Okoro Onyekachi Emmanuel

New Media Advocacy Project (2023), 67 pp.

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Global Innovation in Emergency Telecommunications: Strengthening Disaster Response in the Philippines

World Food Programme (WFP) (2023), 6 pp.

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Using Videos in Floods and Bushfires to Educate, Signal Risk, and Promote Protectice Action in the Community

Paula Dootson, Erica Kuligowski, Scott Murray

Safety Science, volume 164, issue 106166 (2023), 13 pp.

"Videos are commonly used by emergency services agencies in natural hazard emergencies to communicate to the public about the hazard, its possible risks, and to promote protective action. To evaluate the efficacy of the videos being disseminated and amplified during an event, this research examined ... more

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The Role of Bots in Spreading Conspiracies: Case Study of Discourse About Earthquakes on Twitter

Dmitry Erokhin, Nadejda Komendantova

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, volume 92, issue 103740 (2023), 11 pp.

"In this paper, we identified seven most widely spread conspiracy discourses about earthquakes. These conspiracy discourses link earthquakes to military activities like secret nuclear bomb testing, God’s Providence like the punishment of humans for their sins, space activities like aliens visiting ... more

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Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
Top Insights

Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Insung Jung (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2023), 1437 pp.

"This open access handbook offers a one-stop-shop for both new and established researchers, educators, policy makers and administrators in the field of open, distance and digital education (ODDE) to gain a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice at all levels of ODDE, and at the s ... more

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Seán Cubitt (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvii, 249 pp.

"This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three s ... more

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ChatGTP and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Paris; Caracas: UNESCO;UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) (2023), 14 pp.

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Deny, Deceive, Delay (vol.2): Exposing New Trends in Climate Mis- and Disinformation at COP27

Climate Action Against Disinformation (2023), 43 pp.

"Analysis of over 850 advertisers between 1 September and 23 November 2022 showed a small cohort drove the majority of false or greenwashed advertising on Facebook, with activity peaking in the weeks preceding and during COP27. Common techniques included ‘nature-rinsing’, to distract and mislead ... more

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Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts

Tobias Ide

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), 291 pp.

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Public Health Literacy and Community Media in Europe

Birgitte Jallov, Helmut Peissl

European Excellence Exchange in Journalism (E3J);Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE);COMMIT (2023), 149 pp.

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Addressing Environmental Sustainability Through the OECD DAC Criteria for Evaluation of Development Assistance

Footprint Evaluation Initiative (2023), 9 pp.

"This document discusses how the six evaluation criteria of the OECD DAC (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee) can be used to get environmental sustainability on the agenda for evaluations and monitoring. These criteria are widely used in inter ... more

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Interconnected Disaster Risks

Caitlyn Eberle, Zita Sebesvari, Liliana Narvaez et al.

Bonn: United Nations University (UNU) (2023), 92 pp.

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Humanitarian Topics Explained: Forgotten Crises to Go

Eddo Westland

Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA) (2023), 10 pp.

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Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guidance

Nairobi: Busara (2023), 46 pp.

"This guide does not require prior knowledge or experience in behavioral science. It will be relevant for you if you are an actor in a humanitarian setting look to: 1. Design a Theory of Change for a program aiming to change people’s beliefs or behaviors: This guide can be used by several actors. ... more

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Natural Language Processing for Humanitarian Action: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Path Toward Humanitarian NLP

Roberta Rocca, Nicolo Tamagnone, Selim Fekih, Ximena Contla, Navid Rekabsaz

Frontiers in Big Data, volume 6 (2023), 14 pp.

"Natural language processing (NLP) is a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence, which is concerned with developing methods to process and generate language at scale. Modern NLP tools have the potential to support humanitarian action a ... more

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Panorama da infodemia socioambiental: Análise multiplataforma do ecossistema brasileiro de mídia digital 2021-2022

NetLab (2023), 75 pp.

"A desinformação ambiental é uma das pautas centrais na propaganda política da extrema-direita brasileira, servindo de argumento para o desmonte da proteção do meio ambiente e o avanço sistemático de atividades extrativistas no Brasil. Em última instância, nossos resultados apontam para a ... more

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Understanding the Role of Narratives in Humanitarian Policy Change

Patrick Saez, John Bryant

Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) (2023), 36 pp.

"Narratives and frames have greater influence on policy change than facts and figures. They have a critical role to play in leveraging political will for transforming the humanitarian system. Humanitarian organisations have greater power to shape narratives than they are willing to admit. The consta ... more

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La communication pour le changement social et comportemental

Amel Benkahla, Sophie Renault (eds.)

Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2023), 8 pp.

"La malnutrition résulte en partie de pratiques alimentaires inappropriées : des repas peu diversifiés souvent en raison du manque de disponibilité ou d’accessibilité d’aliments variés et nutritifs, des connaissances insuffisantes ou un manque de temps pour élaborer des repas sains. Des a ... more

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Humanitarian Training Provider Forum - Quick Guide: Choosing Your Learning Format

Training Providers Forum (TPF) (2023), 9 pp.

"[...] this short document is a bite-size exploration of a number of training delivery methods, which aims to help organisations choose which approaches are most suited to their aims. In order to do this, it provides a set of considerations for this decision-making process, as well as six brief case ... more

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Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning

Thorsten Philipp, Tobias Schmohl (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 422 pp.

"What is transdisciplinarity - and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academ ... more

Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education Top Insights

Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science Key Guidance

Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
Top Insights

Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guidance