Disaster risk management and public education in Singapore

Title: Disaster risk management and public education in Singapore
Creator: Ha, Huong; Jamil, Suriani
Relation: Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia p. 171-188
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1976-7_12
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Although it is extremely difficult to predict and manage natural and man-made disasters within a country or a region, public awareness of disaster management is important to increase self-resilience before, during and after disasters. One of the measures to enhance public awareness of disaster risk management is to provide educational programs to the public. This chapter discusses different educational programs to educate the public about disaster preparedness and management in different countries, including Singapore which has been used as a case study. It also assessed the effectiveness of such programs using the five element of the Wisconsin Model of Public Education as the assessment criteria.
Subject: Asia; disaster risk management; public education; public awareness; natural disasters; Singapore
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309660
Identifier: uon:21927
Identifier: ISBN:9788132219750
Language: eng

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