%0 Journal Article
%T Mainstreaming disaster risk management in higher education
%A Ana Catalina TreviŁżo
%A Bertha E. C¨˘rdenas
%A Jorge Lozano
%A Marcia Villasana
%A Marianela Adriaens¨Śns
%J -
%D 2016
%R https://doi.org/10.17230/ad-minister.28.12
%X Universities should actively participate in disseminating and fostering a culture for disaster risk management (DRM) among students and the community. Particularly in countries with high levels of risk, education plays a key role in raising awareness on the importance of preventing and implementing conscious risk management. Though the incorporation of DRM into the curricula, education programs become a mechanism to prepare students from a perspective of strengthening of values, citizenship, and social sensibility towards how disaster represents a disruption of the functioning of a community and impairs business activity. This paper presents the proposal for the integration of DRM of a private university in Mexico, one of the countries particularly susceptible to extreme hydrometereological and geological events. The proposal includes a concentration area for undergraduate business students, a mandatory introductory course for all business majors, and for the business community an executive education program for SMEs
%K disaster risk management
%K higher education
%K Mexico
%U http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/administer/article/view/3569