Communication of civil defense agencies in Brazil: Highlighting risks or disasters?

Autor: Elois Beling Loose, Luciana R. Londe, Victor Marchezini
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 165-173 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0719-8477
DOI: 10.55467/reder.v7i1.114
Popis: According to the Brazilian National Policy for Civil Defense and Protection (PNPDEC), the actors involved in civil defense systems, at all spatial scales (from national to local), must adopt the necessary measures to reduce disaster risks, seeking to give priority to preventive actions related to disaster reduction. In this study we analyze the way that some civil defense agencies are communicating with their external audiences to verify whether the PNPDEC guidelines are being met in the messages produced by professionals in this area. To this end, we analyzed the contents of Facebook publications of civil defense agencies from five Brazilian states, one per region, and also those published on the Ministry of Regional Development page, in which the National Secretariat for Protection and Civil Defense is included. The results show a predominance of publications associated with the disaster response phase and, consequently, with the disclosure of actions more related to disasters than prevention.
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