Threats and climate risks into vulnerable populations. The role of education in the community resilience

• Main Authors: Edgar Javier GONZÁLEZ-GAUDIANO, Ana Lucía MALDONADO-GONZÁLEZ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; French
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017
• Subjects: riesgo; vulnerabilidad; resiliencia comunitaria; educación ambiental; veracruz; Education (General); L7-991; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.16707; https://doaj.org/article/a49cd38f682947da8e461559612e246e

Nowadays, challenges in the contemporary world lead to the education to propose its current themes. Environmental education is not an exception. The magnitude and complexity of global environmental problems such as the climate change, the ocean acidification and the loss of the biodiversity have generated issues that had attracted pedagogical attention for decades. This article presents the early results of a study aimed at assessing the perception of risk and vulnerability of communities that frequently are affected by extreme hydrometeorological phenomena. These findings could be a starting point for the design of educational programs aimed at strengthening community resilience. We start from the assumption based on socio-cognitive factors that determine the dispositions in order to the populations can act under similar circumstances, we can find key elements that allow us to infer their reactions to difficult situations. This considering their previous experience and their singularities in the adaptation to climate change, in the social learning in extreme situations and in the identification of their strengths and weaknesses.