@article{ref1,
title="Disaster mitigation and communications research in Canada: towards a responsive innovation agenda",
journal="International journal of emergency management",
year="2007",
author="Gow, Gordon A.",
volume="4",
number="2",
pages="122-140",
abstract="The aim of this paper is to introduce a new conceptual framework for communications policy research pertaining to disaster mitigation in Canada. It claims that mitigation-oriented policy research must expand its agenda to focus on the deep social roots of risk and vulnerability in Canadian society and that such a re-orientation in theory can provide the foundation for the reform of public policy and practical action suited to the National Disaster Mitigation Strategy (NDMS). Key findings from a recent study of Canada's communications infrastructure are cited to introduce three research themes – learning, innovation, and enabling – that can serve as the foundation for a 'responsive innovation agenda'. The paper introduces this agenda, specifies its core normative principle, and then provides a number of real-world cases that can inform ongoing research efforts towards its realisation.<p />",
language="",
issn="1471-4825",
doi="10.1504/IJEM.2007.013986",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEM.2007.013986"
}