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Education and Natural Disasters

Education and Natural Disasters

Smawfield, David
Brock, Colin

Paperback

Series: Education as a Humanitarian Response

Environmental StudiesGeneral EducationInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1441166998
ISBN13: 9781441166999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 20 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

What is the relationship between education and natural disasters? Can education play a role in ameliorating and mitigating them, preparing people in how to respond, and even helping to prevent them? If so, how?

Drawing on research carried out in a number of different countries, including Australia, China, India, Japan, the UK and the USA, the contributors consider the role of education in relation to natural disasters. The case studies expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the understudied relationship between education and natural disasters, uncover the potential and the limitations of education for mitigating, responding to, and potentially preventing, natural disasters. The contributors also consider the extent to which so-called natural disasters, such as mudslides caused by deforestation and flooding areas built on known flood plains, are linked to human behaviour and how education can impact on these.

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