Disaster education
by Shaw, Rajib Shiwaku, Koichi Takeuchi, Yukiko
Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to collectively reduce the risk. While school education forms the foundations of the knowledge cycle, for effective knowledge use, it is necessary to link school and community education. Education is linked to enhanced awareness and a key reflection of education is seen in terms of actions. Divided into fou…
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- Full title :Disaster education / edited by Rajib Shaw, Koichi Shiwaku, Yukiko Takeuchi.
Summary
Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to collectively reduce the risk. While school education forms the foundations of the knowledge cycle, for effective knowledge use, it is necessary to link school and community education. Education is linked to enhanced awareness and a key reflection of education is seen in terms of actions. Divided into four sections this book begins with an informative introduction to the subject of disaster risk reduction education and proceeds to highlight key places of education such as family, community, school, and higher education. It then examines approaches, methods and tools before providing a future perspective and pointing to the way ahead. This is the first book of its kind on disaster risk reduction education. A ready reference for practitioners in the field this book describes and demonstrates different aspects of education in an easy-to-understand form with current academic research and practical field experiences included throughout.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Emerald
- Place of Publication:Bingley, U.K
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 162 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857247384, 0857247387, 9780857247377, 0857247379, 1283223252, 9781283223256
- oclc:ocn743193251
- LC Classification:HV551.2
- Dewey Decimal:363.34
Table of Contents
ch. 1. Disaster education : an introduction / Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, Qi Ru Gwee, Koichi Shiwaku -- ch. 2. Disaster education policy : current and future / Qi Ru Gwee, Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi -- ch. 3. Roles of school in disaster education / Koichi Shiwaku, Glenn Fernandez -- ch. 4. Roles of family and community in disaster education / Yukiko Takeuchi, Farah Mulyasari, Rajib Shaw -- ch. 5. Essentials of higher education in disaster risk reduction : prospects and challenges / Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick, Yukiko Takeuchi -- ch. 6. Innovative approaches in disaster education / Koichi Shiwaku, Glenn Fernandez -- ch. 7. Implementation tools for disaster education / Farah Mulyasari, Yukiko Takeuchi, Rajib Shaw -- ch. 8. Tsunagaru / Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, Koichi Shiwaku.
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