Developing Sustainable Participation in Learning for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 3721
Special Issue Editor
Interests: community-based and participatory DRR/CCA; DRR learning; DRR education; community learning; public pedagogy
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Dear Early Career Researchers,
Participatory approaches have become mainstream in projects for developing disaster and climate resilience in communities. While many positive outcomes of such projects have been identified around the world, certain common challenges have also been reported. One of them is the challenge of sustaining communities’ participation in disaster risk reduction. For example, with funded projects, once the funding terminates, participants’ efforts tend to discontinue. In community-led initiatives, as participants’ memory of the disaster experience fades out, their interest in DRR tends to be lost as well. As a pathway for sustainable community engagement in DRR, ‘starting early’ has increasingly been promoted.
With this background, this Special Issue aims to explore the innovative efforts to develop disaster and climate resilience targeting early years (birth to 5 years old) and school years (6 to 15 years old). The other aim of this Special Issue is to support early career researchers. Innovative literature reviews and work-in-progress research on the themes of sustainable DRR learning are welcome. One requirement from the journal is that if you are not a Ph.D. holder, an expert in the field has to be co-listed as a corresponding author.
‘Education’ encompasses wide forms of learning and teaching beyond one that is based on a school curriculum. Therefore, research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable approaches to education for disaster and climate resilience for early years;
- Sustainable approaches to education for disaster and climate resilience for school years;
- Community-nursery collaboration for DRR purposes;
- Community-school collaboration for DRR purposes;
- University-nursery collaboration for DRR purposes;
- University-school collaboration for DRR purposes;
- DRR education and early years teacher education;
- DRR education and school years teacher education.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Kaori Kitagawa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- early years
- school years
- disaster and climate resilience
- DRR education
- community learning
- participation
- collaboration
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