7. The role of the education in the construction of a preventive culture insocionatural events

Abstract

The risk insocio-natural disasters is the result of the closerelation between the latent danger of a natural phenomenon, as external, fixed and unalterable factor, and the vulnerability determined by the local conditions to confront the threat, together with the degree of acceptance and preventive formation of the population. The above mentioned reality could be transformed if deepchanges were achieved. Those changes will allow the assimilation of the prevention component as part of the culture. The present test arises from the interest to think about the importance of the education so a new prevention culture may be reached according to this vision, only by means of the educational action, seem as a goal more than an aim. Collective changes will be able to be achieved and will redound towards an integral management of risks to the perspective of the sustainable development.