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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (DMA) is a bilingual, open-access journal from UFPR's Graduate Program in Environment and Development, founded in 2000. Indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus and other databases, DMA has an international reach and is a traditional and highly regarded scientific vehicle in its field in Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries. The journal's focus is the interdisciplinary discussion of issues at the interface between society and nature, seeking an innovative and critical approach and fostering the dialogue between different areas of knowledge. Its objectives are to publish and widely disseminate original quality articles on socio-environmental issues, aimed at the academic public, but also of interest to readers outside academia, such as government agencies, civil society organizations, social movement entities, and business segments.

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Vol. 67 (2026): Communication of Socio-environmental Risks and Disasters
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Special section editors

Eloisa Beling Loose
Luciana R. Londe

Published: 2026-04-16

Communication of socio-environmental risks and disasters

  • Editorial – Communication of socio-environmental risks and disasters in Brazil: An area under development

    Eloisa Beling Loose, Luciana R. Londe
    218-221
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.102669

  • Perception of air quality in a metropolis in Northeastern Brazil as a basis for risk communication

    Anselmo César Vasconcelos Bezerra, Carlos Eduardo Menezes da Silva , Max Antônio Silva Pessoa, Michele de Lima Silva, Rosane Silva Avelino dos Santos , Maria Clara Vidal de Freitas , Helen da Costa Gurgel , Alexandra Monteiro
    222-240
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.99281

  • Disaster risk communication organizational capacities at the age of extremes

    Victor Marchezini, Monique Ribeiro Polera Sampaio, Paula Sayeko Souza Oda, André Luiz Martins Cotting, Karolina Gameiro Cota Dias
    241-266
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.99225

  • Popular communication and health surveillance: strategies to address the oil spill crime/disaster on the northeastern coast

    Thayna Karen, Rosely Fabrícia de Melo Arantes, Nathalie Alves Agripino , José Erivaldo Gonçalves , Cláudio Luiz de França Neto, André Wolmer de Melo, Idê Gomes Dantas Gurgel, Mariana Olívia Santana dos Santos
    267-287
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98706

  • The impact of nomenclature attributed to victims of technological environmental disasters: the case of the Fundão dam collapse

    Andreza Aparecida Franco Câmara , Ludmilla Pereira Massoto Laranjeiras
    288-313
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.99754

  • Visibility and communication of multi-risk situations among traditional peoples and communities in the Brazilian Amazon: representations in the media

    Janaina Cassiano dos Santos, Marlise Mirta Rosa, Gleiciane de Oliveira Pismel, Liana Anderson
    314-340
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98905

  • Risk perception and communication: an analysis of media coverage in high-incidence disaster areas in Santarém, Pará

    João Paulo Soares de Cortes, Laura Eloíse da Silva Lima, Janaína dos Santos Mendes, Diani Fernanda da Silva Less
    341-359
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98735

  • Heat as entertainment: an analysis of MT1 television news about the 2023 heatwaves in Cuiabá

    Victória Ellen Araújo Dalla Costa, Thiago Cury Luiz
    360-385
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98746

  • The role of the press and its interest in climate change

    Beatriz Catalina-García, Carlos Lozano Ascencio, Márcia Franz Amaral, Manuel Santillán-Vasquez
    386-410
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98228

  • Eco-anxiety and solastalgia in lived territories: sacrifice zones and mining environmental liabilities in Atacama, Chile

    Claudio Broitman, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Torrent, Claudia Andrea Ortiz Calderón
    411-437
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.99367

  • The 2020-2022 water crisis in Curitiba and the Metropolitan Region in the news of the digital newspaper Gazeta do Povo

    Debora Rocha Faria Jorge, Dhyeisa Lumena Rossi, Myrian Regina Del Vecchio de Lima
    438-457
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98742

  • Multiple dimensions in the communication of flood impacts in Rio Grande do Sul: an essay on the social construction of the notion of volunteering

    Rodolfo Bezerra de Menezes Lobato da Costa, Tarinê Cortina Poeta Castilho da Silva, Vinícius Luiz Corrêa, Carolina Efing, Lara Senger, Marjorie Reis Muller
    458-482
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98736

  • Disasters and community uses of media: how hurricane Maria impacted vulnerable Puerto Ricans

    Manuel Chavez, Bruno Takahashi, Luis Graciano Velazquez, Alexandra Benitez
    483-499
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98704

  • Public risk communication: A theoretical proposal for extreme event contexts

    Rosangela Florczak Oliveira, Janis Linda Loureiro Morais
    500-513
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98602

  • Risk communication and urban resilience against floods: a comparative analysis between Santa Fe (Argentina) and Blumenau (Brazil)

    Juan Manuel Cozzi
    514-529
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98163

  • Expanding dialogue: using digital communication as education tool to reduce landslide-related disaster risks

    Luana Carmelina Rodrigues Monteiro, Louise Wittmann Fillies, Marcos Barreto de Mendonça
    530-558
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98169

  • Risk Communication and media interventions in disaster risk management – contributions from two practical experiences in Brazil

    Cilene Victor da Silva, Lilian Sanches
    559-586
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98784

  • Dialogue on communication and climate emergencies: challenges and transformations

    Lara Corrêa Ely, Rafaela Redin Rubert
    587-604
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98707

  • Dialogues between scientific and religious institutions on climate disaster risk reduction

    Carolina Franco Esteves, Jeniffer de Souza Faria, Heloísa Tavares de Mattos Martins, Felipe Augusto Santos, Aloísio Lelis de Paula, Antonio Fernando Silveira Guerra , Rachel Trajber, Priscilla Françoso
    605-624
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v67i.98659

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