Meridian 180 Forum: Local Knowledge and Community Participation in Disaster Response
When:
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Hiroko Strulovici
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Sponsor: Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University
Category: Global & Civic Engagement
Description:
Disasters affect us more frequently and severely than ever before. To save lives and mitigate the adverse impacts of disasters, local knowledge is an indispensable resource and a capacity that should be utilized in any disaster response, and community participation is essential to identifying such local knowledge. This forum discusses how local knowledge has been adopted and used in disaster responses, and explores various methods to identify or revalidate local knowledge through community participation.