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Awareness-raising of flood risk and building resilience among children in Zagreb, Croatia

This study aims to make suggestion for future awareness-raising towards disasters, especially focusing on floods, in Zagreb through analysis of social survey results and awareness-raising materials from public organizations. The study is constructed with triangulation of material and document analysis, social survey (questionnaire), and semi-structured interview to senior citizens who experienced a huge flood happened in Zagreb in 1964.

flood; awareness; children; education for disaster risk

Abstract This research aims to make a proposal to raise citizens’ awareness towards emergency cases, especially floods, through analysis of results from a social survey in Zagreb (Croatia). It also seeks a possible way to build a bridge between past experience and today’s life regarding awareness-raising and preparedness in the context of Croatian society. This paper focuses on the status of awareness among youth towards disaster risks, especially floods, in Zagreb through social surveys and analizes the results in order to propose a tool for raising awareness and preparedness for disaster risks. It also tries to seek applicability of Japanese experiences in disaster risk reduction as well as if computational tool, as way forward, can be effective as educational tool for awareness- raising. It concludes with a proposal of tool development to form a holistic approach regarding education for disaster risk reduction, hopefully taking outcomes of the ongoing bilateral project – the Japanese-Croatian Project – into account.