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...

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.