THE IMPACT OF DISASTER MITIGATION TRAINING ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS: A CASE STUDY ON UNNES STUDENTS

Abstract

One of the ways to improve environmental awareness other than lecturing, is training. This paper demonstrates that disaster mitigation training has the potential to improve environmental awareness as an attempt to minimalize the impacts of disasters. Mitigation is a set of efforts to reduce disaster risks, either through infrastructure or capacity building in overcoming disaster risks. By focusing on environmental destruction due to human activities, it reveals that those destructions are caused by humans mindset, attitude, and activities that do not reflect rationality and responsibility in exploring and managing the environment. This problem leads to the urgency of raising the environmental awareness. University students play a critical role in this effort, especially UNNES as a conservation university. It is a campus that actively promotes the campaign for conserving and protecting the nature formally within its conservation pillars.