The course on Corrective Disaster Risk Management offers a unique opportunity to acquire essential skills in a booming sector, where the demand for qualified professionals is growing exponentially. Currently, the risk management Disaster management is crucial given the increase in adverse events that threaten both communities and infrastructure. This course will provide you with a solid conceptual framework for understanding the dynamics of risk, focusing on the corrective management of threats and vulnerabilities. You will learn how to develop comprehensive interventions that help to mitigate these impacts, whilst promoting resilience and sustainability. The online format offers you the flexibility to study from anywhere, making it easier to balance your studies with other commitments. Taking this course will position you as an agent of change, prepared to tackle current challenges and actively contribute to collective safety and well-being.
Corrective Disaster Risk Management
Risk and Disaster Management and Prevention
40 hours
Introduction
Objectives
- Identify the concepts key to the corrective action disaster risk.
- Analyse the potential threats and their impacts in risk management.
- Assess the vulnerability from different environments in the event of disasters.
- Design strategies from corrective action to reduce vulnerabilities.
- Implement comprehensive interventions for mitigate the risk disasters.
- Draw up plans from action measures based on corrective risk management.
- Apply the knowledge gained to improve resilience to disasters.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Basic concepts
(Corrective) risk mitigation strategies
Incorporating (corrective) risk management into spatial and environmental planning instruments
Incorporating corrective risk management into public investment
Risk reduction measures – Steps to manage risk
TEACHING UNIT 2. CORRECTIVE ACTION IN THE EVENT OF A THREAT
Overview of corrective action in response to the threat
Structural measures to prevent flooding
Structural measures for mass movements
Environmental measures
Non-structural measures to reduce the threat
TEACHING UNIT 3. CORRECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF VULNERABILITIES
Overview of corrective action for vulnerabilities
Structural measures to reduce vulnerability
Non-structural measures to reduce vulnerability
Resettlement (I)
Resettlement (II)
TEACHING UNIT 4. COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS
Regional initiatives
Sector-Specific Interventions
Regional Initiatives – Major Projects
Climate change adaptation measures relating to GRD
Risk mitigation exercise.
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