54 research outputs found
Situating preparedness education within public pedagogy
Both ‘disaster preparedness’ and ‘public pedagogy’ have been broadly defined and diversely utilised. Preparedness has been dealt within the disciplines such as civil engineering, sociology of disasters, public health and psychology, rather than education. Recently, inquiries into the learning and teaching of preparedness is increasing in the field of education, and some of them position preparedness education within the field of public pedagogy. However, conceptual discussion as to how and why the two fields are associated has been limited. The primary aim of this paper is to fill this gap by drawing on public pedagogy literature that conceptualises ‘publics’ and ‘pedagogies’. By doing so, the paper attempts to respond to Burdick et al’s call for Problematizing Public Pedagogy
A network of knowledge on applying an indicator-based methodology for minimizing flood vulnerability
Flood vulnerability assessment plays a key role in the area of risk management. Therefore, techniques that make this assessment more straightforward and at the same time improve the results are important. In this briefing, we present an automated calculation of a flood vulnerability index implemented through a web management interface (PHP) that enhances the ability of decision makers to strategically guide investment. To test the applicability of this methodology using this website, many case studies are required in order to cover the full range of cases in terms of scale such as river basin, subcatchment and urban area. This requires prompt solutions with large amounts of data and this has led to the development of this automated tool to help organize, monitor, process and compare the data of different case studies. The authors aim to create a network of knowledge between different institutions and universities in which this methodology is used. It is also hoped to encourage collaboration between the members of the network on managing flood vulnerability information and also promoting further studies on flood risk assessment at all scales
Estimation of flood land use/land cover mapping by regional modelling of flood hazard at sub-basin level case study: Marand basin
Ready for the Storm: Education for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation 1
Assessing the inundation risk resulting from extreme water levels under sea-level rise: a case study of Rongcheng, China
The vulnerability variation from government roles in disaster risk reduction plans for sediment disasters in Taiwan
Mainstreaming Risk Reduction in Urban Planning and Housing: A Challenge for International Aid Organisations
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