Disaster Education (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, 7) - Hardcover

Rajib Shaw

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857247379 ISBN 13: 9780857247377

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Rajib Shaw - Kyoto University, Japan
Koichi Shiwaku - Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Human Renovation Museum, Kobe, Japan
Yukiko Takeuchi - Kyoto University, Japan

Review

The three editors are affiliated as follows: Rajib Shaw and Yukiko Takeuchi (global environmental studies, Kyoto U., Japan), and Koichi Shiwaku (Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Kobe, Japan). The contributors are also based in Japan. They address disaster education in terms of its importance, current and future policy, roles of schools and of family and community, higher education in risk reduction, innovative approaches, implementation tools, and tsunagaru (linking, in Japanese) - the essence of disaster education. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857247379
• ISBN 13: 9780857247377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 175
• Editor: Rajib Shaw, Koichi Shiwaku, Yukiko Takeuchi