The Course: Concepts and Context of Disaster Management, Risk and Climate Change offers you a unique opportunity to break into a booming sector with growing demand for workers. At present, the Risk management and climate change are critical issues that require urgent attention and innovative solutions. Through this course, you will develop a systemic approach to tackling these challenges, by developing strategic and process-based skills for comprehensive management. You will learn to identify risks, implement effective strategies and contribute to sustainable development – skills that are highly valued in today’s job market. Taking this course will position you as a professional who is well-equipped to tackle the environmental and social challenges of today and tomorrow, making you a key player in the transition towards a more resilient and sustainable world.
Concepts and Context of Disaster Management, Risk and Climate Change
Risk and Disaster Management and Prevention
40 hours
Introduction
Objectives
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Understand the key concepts of the risk management and the climate change.
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Assess the impact from the climate change in the disaster risk.
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Identify strategies for to mitigate the risk of disasters.
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Analysing the relationship between the disaster risk and the climate change.
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Adopt a systemic approach in the risk management y climate change.
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Developing skills for a comprehensive disaster risk management.
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Proposing practical solutions based on the climate risk analysis.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. RISK MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGEMENT
The International Context of Disaster Risk Management (the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction)
The International Context of Climate Change (The IPCC: Overview and Climate Change Scenarios)
Concepts relating to Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change. Levels of coordination.
Action Plans for Risk Management, and structural and non-structural risk mitigation measures
Scenario-based risk management
TEACHING UNIT 2. DISASTER RISK AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Overview of Climate Change (The Physical Basis of Climate Change)
The IPCC: Overview and Climate Change Scenarios
The relationship between development, risk and disasters (the construction of risk) and the effects and impacts of climate variability and climate change.
Extensive and intensive risks, the effects of climate variability and climate change, and their impact on human development
Inequalities and conditions of vulnerability, and the impacts and effects of climate variability and climate change.
TEACHING UNIT 3. A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO RISK MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Areas for Risk Management and Climate Change (from the institutional to the sectoral level, the private sector, the regional level and the community level)
Stakeholders and actions for disaster risk management
Planning tools for risk management and climate change
Institutional frameworks, bodies and organisations responsible for implementing and monitoring actions.
Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change
TEACHING UNIT 4. A PROCESS-BASED APPROACH AND STRATEGIES FOR COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF DISASTER RISK AND CLIMATE CHANGE
What does the process-based approach (the shift in the approach to emergency and disaster response) entail in the context of climate variability and climate change?.
Strategic Processes (Planning, Organisation and Monitoring)
Missionary Processes (Knowledge, Reduction, Preparation/Implementation)
Support Process (Strengthening human resources knowledge and skills, public communication, information for decision-making and information systems)
Strategies for comprehensive disaster risk management in the context of climate variability and climate change.
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