Hazard Mitigation Training for Vulnerable Communities: A K.A.P.S. Knowledge, Attitude, Preparedness, Skills Approach Semien Joy

This book is designed to educate vulnerable communities, emergency practitioners, and disaster researchers to increase the social and physical capacity of communities to mitigate and adapt to disaster impacts. The tools in this book allow researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to adopt new training techniques that are more engaging and effective, using a bottom-up framework to integrate knowledge, attitude, preparedness, and skills (K.A.P.S).This book is uniquely designed to support instructors, researchers, practitioners, and community leaders in their effort to promote preparedness across marginalized communities. With climate change escalating the intensity and range of disasters, we have entered an unprecedented time.

The book contains a full range of templates, worksheets, survey questions, background information, and guidance for carrying out training; the