Disaster Data Centre—An Innovative Educational Tool for Disaster Reduction through Education in Schools

• 作者: Alexoudi Vassiliki Grambas Alexia Lekkas Efthymis Plessas Panagiotis Plessas Spyros Salachoris Michael Valadaki Kate
• 来源期刊: 电力能源(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: DISASTER DISASTER AWARENESS DISASTER Reduction EDUCATION E-LEARNING
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（9）
• 页码范围: 35-40
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

During the last decades, mankind has suffered from devastation caused by natural disasters and technological accidents of increased frequency and children are among the most vulnerable population group, especially those attending school during times of disaster. The importance of education in promoting and enabling disaster risk reduction has already been identified by researchers. In this paper “Disaster Date Center (DDC)” is presented, a new, powerful and innovative tool for the study of and education on disasters. One noteworthy application of DDC is the educational and public awareness tool in the form of e-learning.