Disaster education

• Other Authors: Shaw, Rajib, Shiwaku, Koichi, Takeuchi, Yukiko
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
• Series: Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 7.
• Subjects: Nature > Natural Disasters.; Nature > Environmental Conservation & Protection.; Education > General.; Natural disasters.; The environment.; Emergency management.

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 eff...