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Disaster Risk Management and Public Education in Singapore

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Although it is extremely difficult to predict and manage natural and man-made disasters within a country or a region, public awareness of disaster management is important to increase self-resilience before, during and after disasters. One of the measures to enhance public awareness of disaster risk management is to provide educational programs to the public. This chapter discusses different educational programs to educate the public about disaster preparedness and management in different countries, including Singapore which has been used as a case study. It also assessed the effectiveness of such programs using the five element of the Wisconsin Model of Public Education as the assessment criteria.

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  1. UON Singapore (University of Newcastle, Singapore Campus), Singapore, Singapore

    Huong Ha

  2. Postgraduate student, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Suriani Jamil

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Ha, H., Jamil, S. (2015). Disaster Risk Management and Public Education in Singapore. In: Ha, H. (eds) Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1976-7_12

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