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Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

The floating village on the water of Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia.
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Floods pose significant risk to education and healthcare in Cambodia

The health consequences of temporary hospital closures have lasting effects on children. This worsening of children’s health could be critical in a country where 32 out of 100 children are stunted and at risk of cognitive and physical limitations.
World Bank, the
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Documents and publications

Climate change and sustainability in Spanish classrooms: State of the art and didactic proposal

This paper designs a learning situation on sustainability and climate change that can be implemented in the Spanish and European contexts.
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Documents and publications

Multi-hazard resilience of higher educational institutions in Asia Pacific

This collaborative endeavor aims to facilitate the exchange of challenges, lessons learned, and innovative practices in preparedness, response, and recovery across various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Landslide-affected road
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Training of trainers to improve geological disasters resilience in Malaysia

We have witnessed a growing number of geological disasters due to climatic shifts. One such disaster is the landslide, and this can be attributed to intense rainfall coupled with high slope angles in areas previously not expected to be susceptible.
European Geosciences Union
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Documents and publications

Futures at risk: Climate-induced shocks and their toll on education for crisis-affected children

This 2023 background study presents estimates of the number of crisis-affected children and adolescents whose education was disrupted by climate shocks, as well as the number of forced displacements of school-aged children due to extreme weather events.
Schoolchildren conducting earthquake drill
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For Fijian students, annual tsunami drills are just another part of their school life

The long whirring sound of a tsunami alert ringing out across Fiji’s capital of Suva is a familiar sound, thanks to annual drills practicing for a day residents hope never arrives.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Why disaster resilient infrastructure education needs to be embedded in higher education curriculum

Enhancing existing academic and training curricula, with respect to the evolving context of disaster and climate risks, will be a vital building block for securing infrastructure against disasters.
Hindu Business Line, the - The Hindu Group of Publications
Research briefs

Effective visual communication of climate change

How can climate change science be made most accessible to the general population, as well as decision-makers and educators?
Geological Society of America, the

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