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Participatory Mapping for Raising Disaster Risk Awareness Among the Youth
Author(s) -
Gaillard J. C.,
Pangilinan Maria Lourdes Carmella Jade D.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2010.00614.x
Subject(s) - disaster risk reduction , vulnerability (computing) , citizen journalism , hazard , scale (ratio) , participatory action research , raising (metalworking) , environmental planning , political science , geography , computer security , sociology , computer science , engineering , cartography , mechanical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , anthropology , law
This research note documents a recent experience conducted in the Philippines and that consisted in using participatory mapping to raise disaster risk awareness among the youth. Maps are cheap, easy to reproduce and help in materializing hazard, vulnerability and risk, and thus allow the youth to concretely appraise disaster risk in their immediate environment. This is particularly important among marginalized communities. The next step is hence to scale up the activity to the level of disaster risk reduction within schools and colleges.