Human Geosciences (H)
Session Sub-categoryDisaster geosciences (DS)
Session IDH-DS10
Session Title Literacy for Disaster Risk Reduction
Short Title Leteracy for DRR
Date & Time Oral
Session
AM1-AM2 Mon, 27 MAY
On-site
Poster
Coretime
PM3 Mon, 27 MAY
Main Convener Name Makoto Takahashi
Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Co-Convener 1 Name Reo KIMURA
Affiliation University of Hyogo
Session Language J
Scope (Session Description) In this session, the concept of literacy for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and related topics are theoretically and empirically discussed in cases of geoscientific natural hazards and disasters, including meanings and contents of the literacy, how its level is evaluated, and what kind of efforts and challenges are for enhancing the literacy for DRR, primarily based on social sciences and humanities, but from interdeciplinary and transdeciplinary perspectives involving communities and societies.
Presentation Format Oral and Poster
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