Disaster and climate resilience management

Understanding resilient measures to climate change and disaster risk management (DRM) strategies is now relevant to everyday decision-making in academic, private and public sectors. This exciting course introduces innovative and practical applications of DRM, using local and global experience, and can benefit professionals in academia, government, disaster-management agencies, construction, re/insurance, and international development, as well as students and other stakeholders. It offers a mixture of lectures, group exercises, practicals and presentations, covering: risk identification, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation measures, financing, decision-making, emergency preparedness and response, DRM project management, innovations and communications, and lessons learned. This is a 10-session course and must be taken with W210Pm52 in Week 2.