ABSTRACT
Hyogo Declaration changed the pedagogy of disaster management from ‘rescue, relief and rehabilitation’ to ‘resilience building, risk reduction and mitigation’ (RRM in place of DRR). However, the disaster management teaching, training and planning continues to be repetitively old pattern across the government as well as the academic institutions. The changing pedagogy of disaster management demands new dimensions to vulnerability, understanding of resilience, perceptions on risk and disaster management. Governance would be revisited on radicalization of administrative accountability. ‘Disaster law’ is a way of strengthening communities and improve their preparedness against the risk and impact of disasters, but it has to be undertaken less in the courtrooms and more with an increased judicial interaction with local administration and communities on fragile habitats.
