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Seismic
Risk: Program for Schools, Didactic Guide for Teachers
The Spanish Civil Protection System includes the General Directorate for Civil Defense of the Ministry of the Interior and all the civil protection agencies of the autonomous regions and local governments, as well as public and private organizations involved in risk analysis, prevention, follow up, hazard information, emergency management and rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Disaster
Prevention: Living in Harmony with Nature
Its nine chapters include useful illustrations and well as synoptic text boxes, lists of basic concepts, and questionnaires to test the reader’s mastery of the material. Each chapter ends with a suggested activity that can help readers apply what they have learned to their own environments, at home, at school, and in their town or city. The book also explains the role played by Civil Defense in Peru.
Microzoning
of Risks and Resources: Validity of methodological support
This process has shown, in a practical way, that through a better knowledge of their own specific reality and the opportunity to influence decisions aimed at improving their living conditions, people develop a greater capacity to recognize their duties and rights and help to shape their own future.
“Education
and Disaster Prevention”
This book attempts to stimulate discussion and introduce, in a non-traditional and effective manner, the subject of disaster prevention into the curriculum of Costa Rica’s formal education system. This is of vital importance because disasters, which constitute a terrible experience in the lives of individuals and communities - especially the poorest - are becoming a part of daily life and should therefore be included as an essential element of educational initiatives to promote people’s integral training and the social awareness of risk. The contents of this book are based on a rigorous review and articulation of the contributions of the different disciplines that converge into a broad and comprehensive understanding of the issue. In addition, the book contains valuable contributions by teachers and students of both sexes from primary and secondary schools in the cantons of Pérez Zeledón and Puriscal, which participated in the project. We hope that this
book, the result of a joint effort by UNICEF, FLACSO, LA RED, and members
of Costa Rica’s education community, will be useful to the education
system and contribute to the development of a promising disaster prevention
policy that is just beginning to be applied in the country as a result
of the new legal framework for disaster reduction.
From
Disasters to Sustainable Human Development in Central America The following articles are included: “Disasters and Development”, by Allan Lavell; “Risks and Disasters”, by Helena Molin Valdes and Margarita Villalobos from ISDR; “Local Risk Management in the Context of Hurricane Mitch”, by David Smith; “Women and Vulnerability in Central America”, by Adriana Prado; “Development Actors and Problems in Central America”, by Constantino Urcuyo; “Psychological Intervention in Disaster Situations”, by Lorena Sáenz and José Manuel Salas; and “Sustainable Human Development”, by Jorge Nowalksi. For more information,
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This
publication strives to help teachers introduce to their pupils the subject
of seismic risk. It is a contribution of the Spanish General Directorate
for Civil Protection to the efforts to generate a culture of prevention
by other countries of the Council of Europe (FORM-OSE Program) and the
Ibero-American Association of Governmental Civil Defense and Protection
Agencies.
It is impossible to predict natural phenomena such as earthquakes—to
know in advance their magnitude, or even when and where they will strike.
This book explains the genesis of those natural phenomena that cause disasters.
It also shows how to mitigate disasters by taking preventive steps to
reduce the number of potential victims and material damage.
As part of ONEMI’s institutional mission to improve the safety of
people, their property and the environment in the face of natural or man-made
disasters, a team of professionals from the National Emergency Office
has spent the past five and a half years developing a systemic process
to provide the country with an effective model of community participation
that will guarantee people’s commitment to local safety management.
Education
Project in the Prevention of Risks and Disasters in Costa Rica: a regional
experience directed at primary and secondary schools in the cantons of
Puriscal and Pérez Zeledón. UNICEF, FLACSO and LA RED
The
impact of hurricane Mitch on Central America was a devastatingly persuasive
argument for the need to examine the relationship between natural disasters
and sustainable development. This book collects essays on the subject
from various perspectives and disciplines; they aim to understand the
historical and social processes that have led to Central America’s
high vulnerability, and offer success stories and experiences of risk
prevention and management.