Bernhard Schieber

Crisis life cycle (Fink)

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The crisis life cycle is a view of a crisis as something that unfolds over successive stages, implying that communication needs shift as the situation evolves. It is credited as one antecedent of the phased Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication model.

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Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

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Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

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