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European education on natural disasters – a textbook study

Year: 2013

Type: preprint

Abstract: . Present is the role of formal education on natural disasters in Europe. To ensure a uniform overview, the study used secondary-school geography textbooks from the collection of textbooks at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany. Altogether, more than 160 textbooks from 36 European countries were examined in order to investigate how much their content (pages, text, figures) is related to natural-disasters topics, and to find out which types of hazards are presented more often. In the research it was also analyzed which disaster events are frequently used as an example.

DOI: 10.5194/nhessd-1-2255-2013

Authors: B. Komac, M. Zorn, R. Ciglič

Institutions: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute

Language: English

Topic: Geography Education and Pedagogy

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: Social Capacity Building for Natural Hazards: Toward More Resilient Societies

OpenAlex ID: W2056888958

Cites: 13

Cited by: 29

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