Dissemination - Education

The concept of community for risk assessment and resilience building is widely addressed in the Sendai Framework for Action on Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). Disaster risk reduction efforts are a cost-effective investment in terms of preventing future losses, and effective disaster risk management contributes to sustainable development. Faced with disaster risks, we need to adopt a broader preventive approach that places greater emphasis on the community dimension, leaving no group out and involving them in the development and implementation of policies, plans and standards.

Risk management is part of a process based on the transmission and integration of information into a decision-making chain, and on the interpretation and representation of this expert information by users (stakeholders). Misinformation is certainly the greatest short-term risk facing our society, underlining, perhaps more than ever, the need for science-based facts and evidence.

This means improving the knowledge of representatives of public authorities at all levels, civil society, communities and volunteers, as well as the private sector. The sharing of experience, lessons learned and good practice thus relies on the transfer of academic scientific knowledge to the general public. It is therefore important to promote and improve dialogue and cooperation between the scientific and technological communities, relevant stakeholders and/or decision-makers, in order to create links between science, policy and the public that will (1) facilitate decision-making in disaster risk management, and (2) enable appropriate behavior in times of crisis. 


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