DISASTER EDUCATION COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENT AND DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT VOLUME 7 DISASTER EDUCATION EDITED BY RAJIB SHAW Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan KOICHI SHIWAKU Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Kobe, Japan YUKIKO TAKEUCHI Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited HowardHouse,WagonLane,BingleyBD161WA,UK Firstedition2011 Copyrightr2011EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited Reprintsandpermissionservice Contact:[email protected] Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,transmittedinany formorbyanymeanselectronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise withouteitherthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisheroralicencepermitting restrictedcopyingissuedintheUKbyTheCopyrightLicensingAgencyandintheUSA byTheCopyrightClearanceCenter.Noresponsibilityisacceptedfortheaccuracyof informationcontainedinthetext,illustrationsoradvertisements.Theopinions expressedinthesechaptersarenotnecessarilythoseoftheEditororthepublisher. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-85724-737-7 ISSN:2040-7262(Series) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, Environmental Management System has been certified by ISOQAR to ISO 14001:2004 standards Awarded in recognition of Emerald’s production department’s adherence to quality systems and processes when preparing scholarly journals for print CONTENTS List of Contributors vii List of Editors ix Brief Introduction to the Series xi Brief Introduction to the Volume xiii Preface xv Chapter 1 Disaster Education: An Introduction Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, Qi Ru Gwee and 1 Koichi Shiwaku Chapter 2 Disaster Education Policy: Current and Future Qi Ru Gwee, Rajib Shaw and Yukiko Takeuchi 23 Chapter 3 Roles of School in Disaster Education Koichi Shiwaku and Glenn Fernandez 45 Chapter 4 Roles of Family and Community in Disaster Education Yukiko Takeuchi, Farah Mulyasari and Rajib Shaw 77 Chapter 5 Essentials of Higher Education in Disaster Risk Reduction: Prospects and Challenges Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick and Yukiko Takeuchi 95 Chapter 6 Innovative Approaches in Disaster Education Koichi Shiwaku and Glenn Fernandez 115 v vi CONTENTS Chapter 7 Implementation Tools for Disaster Education Farah Mulyasari, Yukiko Takeuchi and Rajib Shaw 137 Chapter 8 ‘‘Tsunagaru’’: The Essence of Disaster Education Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi and Koichi Shiwaku 153 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Glenn Fernandez International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Qi Ru Gwee International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Fuad Mallick PostgraduatePrograms in Disaster Management, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Farah Mulyasari International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Rajib Shaw International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Koichi Shiwaku Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Center (EDM), National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Kobe, Japan Yukiko Takeuchi International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan vii LIST OF EDITORS Rajib Shaw Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Koichi Shiwaku EarthquakeDisasterMitigationResearchCenter(EDM)NationalResearch, Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Kobe, Japan Yukiko Takeuchi Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan EDITORS’ PROFILE Rajib Shaw is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global EnvironmentalStudiesofKyotoUniversity,Japan.Heworkedcloselywith thelocalcommunities,NGOs,governmentsandinternationalorganization, including United Nations, especially in the Asian countries. He is currently the Chair of the United Nations Asia Regional Task Force for Urban Risk Reduction. His research interests are: community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. KoichiShiwakuisaResearchFellowofEarthquakeDisasterMitigation Research Center (EDM), National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), Japan. He worked closely with the local community,schoolteachersandstudents,NGOs,governments,universities, and other related organizations. His main working fields are mainly Asian countries including disaster-affected areas. His research interests are community-based disaster management, disaster education, and capacity building. Yukiko Takeuchi is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. She has extensive experiences in risk communication and gender studies in the field ix