| Factors influencing people’s level of risk |
Influence of (high level of) education Illustrative examples of how higher levels of education might reduce risk |
| Precondition for adequate selection of adaptation measures |
• Increased risk awareness • Better access to information on risk, risk reduction, offered institutional assistance, etc. • Greater ability to assess, and provide authorities information on, own risk situation • Increased acceptance of (adequate) institutional assistance • A certain level of community cohesion, good health, time availability, and financial resources |
| Prevention | • Moving out of a risk area (within own settlement or outside own settlement) |
| Mitigation |
• Use of an increased number of risk reduction
measures, including non-structural measures • More active use of education-related coping strategies, such as sending children to study outside their own settlement • Better use of institutional assistance (e.g., through the adequate use and maintenance of constructive measures) • Better selection of adequate risk reduction measures |
| Preparedness for response |
• Acceptance and adequate use of institutional
support such as warnings, evacuation, emergency shelter • Active use of education-related coping strategies, such as temporarily sending children to study outside their own settlement • Increased mobility |
| Preparedness for recovery |
• Improved access to post-disaster credits, life
insurance, paid sick leave, pension, etc. (due to formal jobs) • Better use of institutional support such as recovery credits |