Doing Focus Groups by Rosaline Barbour is the fourth volume in The SAGE Qualitative
Research Kit. This book can be used together with the other titles in the Kit as a …

Introduction: Mass casualty decontamination is an intervention employed by first responders
at the scene of an incident involving noxious contaminants. Many countries have sought to …

Studying how the public behaves after a nuclear emergency will help to assess overall
morbidity and mortality. Pre-event education might help to shape behaviour, but how best to …

When addressing public behaviour during mass emergencies and disasters, it is important
to consider that such emergencies and disasters will often involve crowds. An understanding …

Growing concerns about small-scale, low sophistication terrorist attacks, and the difficulties
they present for security services, make public coproduction of security increasingly …

This article describes a visualization experiment that tests hypotheses based on the social
identity approach about effectiveness of communication strategies during mass …

Effective risk communication is an integral part of responding to terrorism, but until recently,
there has been very little pre‐event communication in a European context to provide advice …

Recent years have brought about a reassessment of the value of risk and crisis
communication in improving mental and physical health outcomes in response to a variety of …

It is a common assumption that, in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological, or
nuclear (CBRN) attack, a well-prepared and informed public is more likely to follow official …

Potential terror events such as “dirty bombs” could have significant public health effects, but
little is known about how low-literacy populations perceive dirty bombs, their trust in public …