Guide to the EDUCEN Handbook

1. Guide to the EDUCEN Handbook: purpose, logic and structure

Culture and Risk

1. How to recognize culture
2. The role of beliefs and religion in disaster
3. The role of memories of disaster
4. Cultural heritage and disaster in today's cities

Cities and Disaster Risk Reduction

1. Cities: places of complexity
2. The relevance of spatial scales to cities
3. Urban patterns
4. Soft and hard infrastructure: A resilience based approach for urban DRR
5. Cities at the crucible of multiple historic and present dynamics
6. City management
7. Readings on cities and disaster risk reduction

Inclusion in disaster risk reduction

1. What is community?
2. Engaging with local culture
3. How disaster responders do not engage
4. Informal coping and adaptive capacity during disaster
5. Vulnerability mapping
6. Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: attention for gender, disability and special needs
7. Diversity and Inclusion of people with a disability
8. Risk perceptions

Actors, response and interaction

1. Organizational culture in Disaster Risk Reduction
2. The role of culture in multi-organizational emergency management
3. Networks of responders
4. The armed forces and civil-military interaction
5. Multi-stakeholder participation and community engagement
6. Mapping the people and the organizations involved in DRR

Replicability, empathy, and cultural learning

1. Replicability framework for using culture as an asset in DRR
2. EDUCEN tools and methods: using culture as an asset in DRR
3. Using games to foster empathy, experience, and learning
4. Reflecting on experience: Lessons learnt and key messages from the EDUCEN project