School Safety and Emergency Preparedness: From the Perspective of Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 April 2024 | Viewed by 1580
Special Issue Editors
Interests: disaster recovery; sustainable development; disaster preparedness; comprehensive school safety; multi-organizational cooperation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: disaster management; emergency planning; training exercising for emergency response; disaster risk education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues:
Schools play a crucial role in disaster risk reduction and emergency management as they provide a safe and reliable space during disasters. Additionally, schools serve as the primary platform for disaster risk education, increasing the awareness, knowledge, and skills of children and youth, and extending these skills to their families and communities. The resilient children and youth of today will become resilient citizens in the future.
School safety has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners in recent years. Therefore, further discussion on this topic is needed, particularly from an interdisciplinary and comprehensive perspective. Topics such as emergency planning in the educational sector, and safety and emergency management in higher education institutions, particularly need to be focused on. As such, we organized this Special Issue in Sustainability, an open access journal, to continue promoting such a discussion and the sharing of knowledge.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, systematic reviews, and best practice case studies. Research topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Disaster risk education practices and school preparedness;
- Comprehensive school safety management, including food safety, public health management, etc.;
- School safety and disaster management in higher education;
- Policy analysis on school safety;
- Program evaluations or lessons learned from case studies;
- School safety infrastructure design or construction practices;
- The connection between school safety and community resilience;
- The global adoption of the comprehensive school safety framework advocated by the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Ziqiang Han
Dr. Yung-Fang Chen
Prof. Dr. Guirong Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- disaster risk education
- school safety
- emergency management
- disaster preparedness
- public policy in disaster and emergency management
