An impact assessment of disaster education on children's flood risk perceptions in China: Policy implications for adaptation to climate extremes

Highlights: • Children's risk perceptions are crucial for improving disaster resilience and climate change adaptation. • The classroom education, propaganda poster, and professional guidance had effect to promote children's flood risk perceptions. • Well risk-related parent-child interaction was a moderating factor between education and improving risk perception. • Parent-child companionship hasn't promoted children's risk perception, but risk-related parent-child interactions have. • Integrating parents into education is effective to achieve children's risk perceptions. Children's flood risk perceptions that include their awareness and behaviors, can be cultivated through disaster education, which is crucial for improving disaster resilience and adaptation to climate extremes. However, education's co-influencing effect along with family and society was unclear. This study investigated a three-year disaster education program conducted in schools in Sichuan Province, China.