Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping
Disaster Prevention and Management
ISSN: 0965-3562
Article publication date: 7 January 2022
Issue publication date: 17 May 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to encourage graduate students to facilitate a participatory mapping activity with high school students, to have their voices heard in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) agenda.
Design/methodology/approach
A participatory mapping, youth-led session, was conducted with 22 high school students, where they had to identify flood and landslide-prone areas. Then, they were asked to propose and plan DRR measures in collaboration with local partners in São Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil.
Findings
The participatory method engaged the graduate students and the high school students in the DRR debate, allowing them to map hazards and vulnerabilities, and to discuss five incubation projects for enhancing DRR in the city.
Originality/value
This research highlights the importance of involving young people in DRR formulation and planning to build local capacities in younger generations. The outputs were shared with the local civil defense and a local non-governmental organization (NGO), who suggested recommendations to improve the five incubation projects.
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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge all the support received from the guest editors, who organized this special number, and Mariana Madruga de Brito, who mentored us through the writing process. The authors thank Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo, Husna Yuni Wulansari and anonymous reviewers, who added and helped to improve this paper. Last, but not least, the authors also thank the employees and students at the State High School Monsenhor Ignácio Gióia, the master students and doctoral researchers from the Disasters Program of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the National Center for Monitoring and Warnings of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN). This research was possible with the financial support from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)(Grant Nos. 88887.340300/2019-00 and 88887.489556/2020-00); the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)(Grant No. 2018/06093-4).
Citation
Trejo-Rangel, M.A., Mota Ferreira, A., Marchezini, V., Rodriguez, D.A., Oliveira, M.d.S. and Messias dos Santos, D. (2022), "Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0100
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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