Mainstreaming disaster risk management in higher education

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, and for the business community an executive education program for SMEs

• Autores: Villasana, Marcia; Cárdenas, Bertha E.; Adriaenséns, Marianela; Treviño, Ana Catalina; Lozano, Jorge
• Fecha de publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad EAFIT
• Repositorio: Repositorio EAFIT
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/11385
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10784/11385
• Palabra clave: disaster risk management; higher education; Mexico; gestión del riesgo de desastres; educación superior; México
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