TY - JOUR
T1 - Science and practical disaster risk reduction
T2 - Role of universities and academia in disaster risk reduction: – From the discussions at the UNWCDRR public forum by APRU and IRIDeS –
AU - Izumi, Takako
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) organized a public forum in March 2015 at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in collaboration with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) of Japan. Discussion focused on three topics – bridging the gap between scientific theory and practice, how science and technology could contribute to practical Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the role of social science in DRR. These sessions led to three major recommendations: 1) Enhanced collaboration between the private sector and academia 2) Multisectoral collaboration, including local schools and communities, to make data and technologies useful, usable and accessible 3) Social science elements such as psychology, cultural studies, communication, ethics and history incorporating disaster risk sciences because most current problems involve social rather engineering aspects. Social science potentially balances qualitative and quantitative methods well.
AB - The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) organized a public forum in March 2015 at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in collaboration with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) of Japan. Discussion focused on three topics – bridging the gap between scientific theory and practice, how science and technology could contribute to practical Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the role of social science in DRR. These sessions led to three major recommendations: 1) Enhanced collaboration between the private sector and academia 2) Multisectoral collaboration, including local schools and communities, to make data and technologies useful, usable and accessible 3) Social science elements such as psychology, cultural studies, communication, ethics and history incorporating disaster risk sciences because most current problems involve social rather engineering aspects. Social science potentially balances qualitative and quantitative methods well.
KW - Disaster risk reduction
KW - Science
KW - Universities and academia
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U2 - 10.20965/jdr.2016.p0454
DO - 10.20965/jdr.2016.p0454
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973558722
VL - 11
SP - 454
EP - 458
JO - Journal of Disaster Research
JF - Journal of Disaster Research
SN - 1881-2473
IS - 3
ER -