Mainstreaming disaster risk management in higher education

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Jorge Lozano¹  Marcia Villasana¹  Bertha E. Cárdenas¹  Ana Catalina Treviño¹  Marianela Adriaenséns¹ 

[1] Tecnológico de Monterrey

关键词: disaster risk management;    higher education;    Mexico;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Universidad E A F I T

【 摘 要 】

Universities should actively participate in disseminating and fostering a culture for disaster risk management (DRM) among students and the community. Particularly in countries with high levels of risk, education plays a key role in raising awareness on the importance of preventing and implementing conscious risk management. Though the incorporation of DRM into the curricula, education programs become a mechanism to prepare students from a perspective of strengthening of values, citizenship, and social sensibility towards how disaster represents a disruption of the functioning of a community and impairs business activity. This paper presents the proposal for the integration of DRM of a private university in Mexico, one of the countries particularly susceptible to extreme hydrometereological and geological events. The proposal includes a concentration area for undergraduate business students, a mandatory introductory course for all business majors, andfor the business community an executive education program for SMEs.

【 授权许可】

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