Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management

In urban areas prone to flash floods, characterization of social resilience is critical to guarantee the success of emergency management plans. In this study, we present the methodological approach that led to the submission and subsequent approval of the Civil Protection Plan of Navaluenga (Central Spain), in which the first phase was to analyse flood hazard by combining the Hydrological Modelling System (HEC-HMS) and the Iber 2D hydrodynamic model. We then analysed social vulnerability and designed measures to put into practice within the framework of the Civil Protection Plan. At a later phase, we assessed citizens’ flash-flood risk perception and level of awareness regarding some key variables of the Civil Protection Plan. To this end, 254 adults representing roughly 12% of the population census were interviewed. Responses were analysed descriptively, comparing awareness regarding preparedness and response actions with the corresponding information and behaviours previously defined in the Civil Protection Plan. In addition, we carried out a latent class cluster analysis aimed at identifying the different groups present among the interviewees. Our results showed that risk perception is low. Specifically, 60.8% of the interviewees showed low risk perception and low awareness (cluster 1); 24.4% had high risk perception and low awareness (cluster 2), while the remaining 14.8% presented high long-term risk perception and high awareness (cluster 3). These findings suggest the need for integrating these key variables of social risk perception and local tailored information in emergency management plans, especially in urban areas prone to flash-floods where response times are limited.This research has been funded by the MARCoNI Project (MINECO, CGL2013-42728-R) of the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation, and previous projects of this research team by MAS Dendro-Avenidas (MINECO, CGL2010-19274; www.dendro-avenidas.es) and MIDHATOVenero (IGME 2013/2313)

Influence of non-osteoporotic treatments in patients on active anti-osteoporotic therapy: evidence from the OSTEOMED registry

Producción CientíficaPurpose To evaluate the effect of different non-osteoporotic drugs on the increase or decrease in the risk of incident fragility fractures (vertebral, humerus or hip) in a cohort of patients diagnosed with osteoporosis on active anti-osteoporotic therapy. Methods For this retrospective longitudinal study, baseline and follow-up data on prescribed non-osteoporotic treatments and the occurrence of vertebral, humerus or hip fractures in 993 patients from the OSTEOMED registry were analyzed using logistic regression models. The drugs evaluated with a possible beneficial effect were thiazides and statins, while the drugs evaluated with a possible harmful effect were antiandrogens, aromatase inhibitors, proton pump inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, benzodiazepines, GnRH agonists, thyroid hormones, and oral and inhaled corticosteroids. Results Logistic regression analyses indicated that no treatment significantly improved fracture risk, with the only treatments that significantly worsened fracture risk being letrozole (OR = 0.18, p-value = 0.03) and oral corticosteroids at doses ≤ 5 mg/ day (OR = 0.16, p-value = 0.03) and > 5 mg/day (OR = 0.27, p-value = 0.04). Conclusion The potential beneficial or detrimental effects of the different drugs evaluated on fracture risk are masked by treatment with anabolic or antiresorptive drugs that have a more potent action on bone metabolism, with two exceptions: letrozole and oral corticosteroids. These findings may have important clinical implications, as patients receiving these treat- ments are not fully protected by bisphosphonates, which may imply the need for more potent anti-osteoporotic drugs such as denosumab or teriparatide.Publicación en abierto financiada por el Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y León (BUCLE), con cargo al Programa Operativo 2014ES16RFOP009 FEDER 2014-2020 DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN, Actuación:20007-CL - Apoyo Consorcio BUCL

La Conferencia Episcopal Española como noticia : análisis de la instrucción pastoral "La verdad os hará libres" a través del diario El País

Tesis de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, leída el 26-04-1999Fac. de Ciencias de la InformaciónTRUEpu

Los titulares de prensa y los nuevos servicios de información por correo electrónico y teléfono móvil

Las portadas y los titulares de prensa han sido tradicionalmente los primeros contactos del lector con la información de un diario impreso. En la actualidad, la prensa electrónica ha incorporado nuevos accesos a la información en los que el titular sigue siendo el elemento primordial. La posibilidad de recibir una relación de titulares por correo electrónico o en el propio teléfono móvil, sin jerarquización y presentados de forma "exenta", esto es, sin relación con otros elementos de la página como textos, fotografías o gráficos, hace necesario el estudio de las características de los elementos de titulación para los nuevos servicios de información. Este artículo reflexiona sobre la evolución que en el último año ha sufrido la opción de "Mailnews" en los principales periódicos españoles que ofrecían el servicio en la Red, esto es, EL País, El Mundo, ABC, La Vanguardia y La Razón, así como las repercusiones que los nuevos modos de acceder por primera vez a la información pueden tener en la elaboración de los titulares periodísticos

Enhancing flash flood risk perception and awareness of mitigation actions through risk communication: A pre-post survey design

Flood risk management is gradually shifting from a risk-based approach to an integrated one that, among other elements, considers risk communication (RC) as a means of boosting resilience. Regardless of the above, few scientists have tackled up to now the integration of RC into flood risk management. In this connection, this particular study seeks to check out the potential of a risk dialogue approach (based on an ad hoc RC strategy) to change attitudes and behaviours in relation to flash flood risk. Via a pre-post survey design, we evaluated risk perception and awareness regarding a Civil Protection Plan (CPP) implemented locally (i.e., in the municipality of Navaluenga, central Spain). For this particular objective, a questionnaire survey was created, and 201 adults (representing more than 10% of the population census) were interviewed twice in a one-year period. Before the second survey, an RC strategy was created. The RC strategy comprised briefings, quiz answers, storytelling, a contest of videos and photographs about past floods, and an intergenerational workshop. A t-test for paired sample analyses and a general linear model (GLM) repeated measures ANOVA were applied to identify changes in risk perception and awareness. Our results indicate that the RC strategy did increase flood risk perception in Navaluenga in the long term (lifetime). Also, it increased the level of awareness of the various features that comprise the CPP, enabling people to be more competent in facing a flash flood. Some cognitive biases detected in the perceptual process of human beings may shed some light on the results obtained. The implementation of well-thought-out RC strategies can play a role in improving resilience, particularly in geographic areas such as the Iberian Peninsula, in which climate change scenarios indicate a likely increase in the severity and frequency of flooding.This research was funded by the projects MARCoNI (CGL2013-42728-R) and DRAINAGE (CGL2017-83546-565 C3-1-R), both funded by the Spanish National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation (MINEICO)

Indagaciones interculturales sobre orígenes y religiones en el humor periodístico

The journalistic humor - called cartoons- is one of the most peculiar journalistic way to express opinions. Graphic elements, uses of the humor and the opening to the free interpretation provide a singular character with a high degree of persuasive efficiency. The aim is to process this communicative modality in relation with the intercultural distortions. This study explores the elements of significance in this area of the representation of the difference. The variables �origin� linked with the immigration and the �religion� present opposite uses when they focus in the stereotypes and loose the social dimension.El humor periodístico -las denominadas viñetas de prensa- constituye uno de los más peculiares géneros periodísticos de opinión. Su componente gráfico, el habitual uso del humor y la apertura a la libre interpretación le proporcionan un carácter singular con un alto grado de eficacia persuasiva. El objetivo de este artículo es procesar esta modalidad comunicativa en relación con las distorsiones interculturales. Este estudio explora los elementos de análisis aplicables en el ámbito de la representación de la diferencia: las variables �origen�, vinculada con la inmigración, y la denominada �religión� presentan usos contrapuestos cuando ponen el acento en los estereotipos y pierden la dimensión social

Interactividad, información, promoción y valor de portal de las televisiones locales en la Red

Tomamos como referencia un trabajo preliminar, presentado en el congreso Comunicar en la Era Digital, que examina la interactividad y la información de las páginas web de las televisiones locales valencianas a partir de un programa de codificación de 72 variables, que se aplica a las páginas de nueve televisiones locales valencianas, la semana del 14 al 21 de febrero de 1999: TVV-Canal 9, Televisión de Elche, Tele-Safor, Televisión de Villena, Canal 55 de Benidorm, Canal Castelló, Valencia-TeVe, Televisión de Silla y Ribera Televisión (Alzira)

Matrimonio y familia en el relato sobre las celebrities. Las portadas de ¡Hola! (2000-2004)

España ha introducido cambios legislativos de amplio calado en relación con el matrimonio y la familia durante los últimos años. Una de las razones esgrimidas para aplicarlos ha sido la propia evolución social, una evolución que, razonablemente, debe tener su correspondiente relato periodístico. Dado que la vida privada es un contenido esencial en la llamada “prensa del corazón”, donde las relaciones de pareja, el matrimonio y la familia de las celebrities son noticias preferentes, este trabajo se propuso medir la presencia del matrimonio y la familia como sujetos periodísticos en este tipo de prensa. Para ello se analizó la selección de noticias y los valores asociados a estas en las portadas de la principal revista del género en España, la revista ¡Hola! durante el periodo de modificación legal: 2000-2004