The role of media framing is drawing significant scholarly attention among disaster and climate scholars in recent times, in terms of its short and long-term impacts on risk preparedness and climate change adaptation. In this paper, we explore the connections between media framing of disasters, and risk communication and preparedness. Through the case of media coverage of eleven newspapers (international and national publications) around the event of Cyclone Amphan in South Asia, we portray a strong media framing around the event. Our findings are three-fold. Firstly, the response system in India and Bangladesh could not follow pre-determined disaster action plans and protocols for a coordinated response, due to the risks and restrictions associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. Secondly, the journalistic response to cyclone Amphan framed the disaster event as ‘natural’, thus reinforcing the reliance on a short-term Response & Recovery centric approach (evacuation, rescue, and relief), over long-term approaches such as disaster preparedness and prevention (adaptation, mitigation, and resilience). Finally, we find that media framing focused on personal stories of individuals helps advance the needs of vulnerable groups; yet at the same time concretizes a relief-centric approach that ignores questions around disaster infrastructure, resilience, and climate change adaptation. We contend that an integrated risk communication approach that is adaptive, takes into account multiple risks and complexities while allowing coordinated efforts between actors and institutions is necessary to develop an effective response policy for disasters and climate-induced extreme events in the future.

就短期和长期对风险准备和适应气候变化的影响而言，媒体框架的作用正在引起灾害和气候学者的广泛关注。在本文中，我们探讨了灾难的媒体框架与风险沟通和准备之间的联系。通过在南亚飓风安潘的活动期间对11家报纸（国际和国家出版物）进行媒体报道，我们描绘出了围绕该活动的强大媒体框架。我们的发现有三点。首先，由于与Covid-19大流行相关的风险和限制，印度和孟加拉国的应对系统无法遵循预定的灾难行动计划和协议来采取协调的应对措施。第二，新闻工作者对Amphan飓风的反应将灾难事件定为“自然事件”，从而加强了对短期响应和恢复为中心的方法（撤离，营救和救济）的依赖，而对灾难预防和预防等长期方法的依赖（适应，缓解和适应力）。最后，我们发现关注个人故事的媒体框架有助于促进弱势群体的需求。然而，与此同时，它又具体化了以救济为中心的方法，该方法忽略了有关灾难基础设施，复原力和适应气候变化的问题。我们认为，一种自适应的综合风险沟通方法，