Teaching of flood risk in Baccalaureate through Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The example of PATRICOVA in the Valencian Community (Spain)
Abstract
Floods are the natural hazard with the greatest economic impact and that causes most deaths in Spain, with particular incidence in the Mediterranean coast. The objective of this work is to carry out different proposals to teach the risk of flooding from the GIS viewer offered by the Territorial Action Plan on prevention of Flood Risk in the Valencian Community (PATRICOVA). These proposals are aimed at the 2nd year of Baccalaureate (optional subject of Geography). And what is intended is to promote among students, skills to interpret the territory, especially their immediate environment in the learning process. With this, it is intended that students achieve a better knowledge of these extreme phenomena by society. This action will allow them to achieve territories and a society more resilient to extreme events, as a measure of adaptation to the current process of climate warming.
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