Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Strategies and Tools for Disaster Risk Management and Resilience
PRESENTATION
Objectives
• Lead the development of innovative proposals for a strategic approach to risk reduction and resilience, promoting applied research. • Integrate a systemic view of risk management as a continuous process, taking into account interactions with climate change and sustainable development. • Design strategies for emergency planning and financial risk management, including climate finance and post-disaster recovery mechanisms. • Implement advanced tools for proactive and corrective action to address conditions of vulnerability, based on a deep understanding of the context. • Assess the impact of risk mitigation policies and measures in different contexts, optimizing strategic decision-making. • Manage programs and projects for climate change adaptation and the prevention of extreme events, ensuring their alignment with international regulatory frameworks. • Develop capabilities for informed decision-making in crisis situations and conditions of high uncertainty, applying advanced risk analysis methodologies.
Methodology
At Educa PHAROS, we use a highly practical methodology focused on the direct application of knowledge in the student’s professional environment, combining theoretical content with real-world cases, digital tools, and support from a team of specialized instructors.
Program
- International Context of Disaster Risk Management (Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction)
- International Context of Climate Change (The IPCC: Overview and Climate Change Scenarios)
- Concepts Related 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
- Overview of Climate Change (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, as well as the impacts and effects of climate variability and climate change.
- 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, entities, and organizations responsible for implementing and monitoring actions.
- Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for 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, Organization, and Monitoring)
- Missionary Processes (Knowledge, Reduction, Preparation/Execution)
- Support Process (Strengthening Knowledge and Capacities in the Human ReMODULE, Public Communication, Information for Decision-Making, and Information Systems)
- Strategies for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management in the Context of Climate Variability and Climate Change.
- Disaster Risk Management
- Domestic Context for Disaster Risk Management.
- The External Context for Disaster Risk Management.
- Context of the disaster risk management process.
- Disaster Risk Criteria.
- Identification of Disaster Risks.
- Disaster Risk Analysis.
- Disaster Risk Assessment.
- Disaster Risk Monitoring
- Illustrative examples of disaster risk assessment.
- Context and Conceptual Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Processes for reducing current and future risks.
- Prospective Intervention
- Risk reduction measures—prospective intervention (future risk).
- Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Corrective action (mitigation of the current risk).
- Reducing vulnerability and building capacity and resilience through structural and non-structural measures.
- Financial protection.
- Social Actors and Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Illustrative examples of corrective actions.
- Climate: Definition
- Climate: Elements and Factors
- Climatology: Methods of Study
- The Climate System
- General Concepts
- Radiation
- Solar-type radiation
- Earth's Energy Balance
- Solar Radiation and Its Spatial Distribution
- Incident Radiation at a Point: Calculation
- Temperature
- Natural Greenhouse Effect: Gases and Mechanisms
- Disruptions in the Energy Balance: Natural and Human Causes
- Climate and General Information
- Climate classification based on temperature and precipitation
- The Köppen Classification
- Strahler's Classification
- Types of Climates
- Mountain Climates
- Historical Climate Events: Little Ice Age, Medieval Climate Optimum
- Methods for Reconstructing Past Climate: Climate Proxies
- Biodiversity, the “finiteness” of natural resources, and “irreversibility” linked to extinction
- Renewable resources. Their current overexploitation
- Conflicts Over Renewable Resources and Environmental Refugees
- Non-renewable resources, minerals, and energy resources
- The problems caused by its use and the conflicts over control of it
- Evidence of Current Climate Change
- Future Projections for the Planet's Average Temperature Based on Changes in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Impoverished countries are and will continue to be the hardest hit; the regions and ecosystems that will be particularly affected by climate change; and projections of the global economic impacts of climate change
- The fight against climate change is possible, and it relies on global action, mitigation, and adaptation
- History and Evolution of Climate Modeling
- Components of Climate Models
- Types of Climate Models
- Reference Scenarios
- IPCC and CMIP6 Simulations
- Projections of Key Climate Variables
- The Evolution of the Concept of the Carbon Footprint
- International Regulations and Standards
- Carbon Footprint Categories
- Scope of Application and Calculation Bases
- What Is Life Cycle Assessment?
- Climate Neutrality and Net-Zero Goals
- Reduction or Offset Strategies?
- Carbon Offset Mechanisms
- Carbon Markets and Emissions Trading Systems
- Difference Between Mitigation and Adaptation
- Local, National, and Global Adaptation Strategies
- Climate-Resilient Infrastructure and Ecosystem-Based Solutions
- Integrating Climate Change into Territorial and Sectoral Planning
- Introduction to Computer Science and Technological Advances.
- Database, data storage, database administration.
- GIS, GPS, Coordinate Systems.
- Using Google Earth Pro to locate coordinates and maps.
- GPS Essentials is collecting data from the Android phone's GPS.
- Creating a data collection form: recommendations for designing the storage structure.
- Using Kobotoolbox.
- Using Typeform.
- Using GISCLOUD.
- Using the Fulcrum App. .
- Basic QGIS Tools (I)
- Basic QGIS Tools (II)
- What are WMS or WFS Geoservices?
- Creating WMS or WFS Services with GeoServer (I)
- Creating WMS or WFS Services with GeoServer (II)
- The Relationship Between Land Registry, Censuses, and Cartography and Risk Management.
- Creation of maps showing land use and critical infrastructure.
- GIS Analysis with QGIS and a Demonstration Using ArcGIS Desktop.
- Susceptibility maps, hazard maps, vulnerability maps, and risk maps. Their differences, types of maps, and methods of preparation.
- Climate Models and Climate Projections.
- Conceptual Framework for Financial Protection Against Disaster Risk
- Conceptual Framework for Climate Finance
- Financial Protection Against Disaster Risk and Climate Finance as a Component of Fiscal Management
- Legal Framework for Financial Protection Against Disaster Risk and International Agreements Related to Climate Finance
- Benefits of Pooling Risks
- Financial Protection Strategies Against Disaster Risk
- Risk Mitigation Measures in the Event of Disasters
- Risk Financing Instruments in the Event of Disasters
- Risk Transfer Instruments in the Event of Disasters
- Disaster Risk Analysis and Climate Change Criteria in the Public Investment Process
- Risk Administration or Management
- Introduction to Insurance
- Types of Insurance
- Business Continuity Plans in the Event of a Disaster
- The Financial Sector's Perspective on Environmental and Social Risks
- Potential Impacts of Weather Events
- Incorporating considerations regarding weather events into the planning process
- Financial Instruments to Address Climate Events
- Tax Policy to Promote Adaptation to Climate Change
- Green Bonds and the Green Climate Fund
- Conceptual Framework for Emergencies and Disasters
- Conceptualization of Recovery from a Development Perspective
- The Context of Disaster Management and Recovery with a Development Focus
- The response, recovery, and effects and impacts of climate variability and climate change
- Cross-cutting Issues in Disaster Management and Recovery with a Development Focus
- Disaster Management and Recovery Processes
- Preparations and Alerts
- Emergency Response Procedures
- The Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Process
- Geographic Levels and Work Sectors
- Information for the response
- Tools and Needs Assessment for the Response
- Information Management for Recovery Using Development-Based Approaches
- Assessment of Damage, Losses, and Recovery Needs
- Recovery: Assessments from Government Sectors, the Role of the Private Sector, and Communities
- Strategies for Disaster Management and the Humanitarian Agenda
- Tools for Emergency and Disaster Response
- Strategies for Post-Disaster Recovery with a Development Focus
- Tools for Planning and Implementing Post-Disaster Recovery with a Development Focus
- Technical and Modular Requirements for Implementing Response and Recovery Actions
- How is the territory defined?
- Analysis from the Political Periphery
- Analysis from an Environmental Perspective
- Territorial levels: global, regional, national, and local
- Territory in Environmental Management and Disaster Risk Management
- Diagnostic Tools in Different Types of Management
- Characterization of Geological Hazards
- Characterization of Hydrometeorological Hazards
- Characterization of Biological Threats
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Studies
- Planning and the Environmental Dimension
- Land Use Planning
- Disaster Risk Management Planning and Climate Change Planning Tools
- Environmental Planning
- Sustainable Development Planning
- Operational Tools in Planning
- Watershed Management Plans
- Environmental Management Plans (EMP)
- Emergency Contingency Plans
- Citizen Oversight Plans
- Risk Management in Public Investment
- Progress and Challenges in Public Investment Risk Management
- Governance for Public Administration and Disaster Risk Management
- Progress Toward Disaster Risk Governance
- Assessment of the Status of Risk Management Integration in Public Investment
- Probabilistic Analysis Tools
- Risk Analysis Tools for Pre-Disaster Public Investment
- Risk Mitigation Tools for Post-Disaster Public Investment
- Tools for Analyzing Risk in Public Investment at the Sectoral Level
- Tools for Monitoring Public Expenditures
- Risk Management in Private Investment
- The Business Sector and Risk Mitigation
- Public-Private Partnerships for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Economic Sector: Tourism and Disaster Risk Reduction
- Economic Sector: Agribusiness and Disaster Risk Reduction
- Community-Based Risk Management
- Vulnerabilities and Challenges at the Community Level
- Community Resilience Analysis
- Community-Based Disaster Risk Planning Tools
- Risk Assessment Tools at the Community Level
- Basic Concepts
- Risk Mitigation (Corrective) Strategies
- Incorporating (corrective) risk management into territorial and environmental planning tools
- Incorporating Corrective Risk Management into Public Investment
- Risk Reduction Measures - Steps to Mitigate Risk
- Overview of Corrective Action for Threats
- Structural Measures for Flooding
- Structural Measures for Mass Movements
- Environmental Measures
- Non-structural measures to reduce the threat
- Overview of Corrective Action for Vulnerabilities
- Structural measures to reduce vulnerability
- Non-structural measures to reduce vulnerability
- Resettlement (I)
- Resettlement (II)
- Regional Initiatives
- Sector-Specific Initiatives
- Regional Initiatives - Major Projects
- Climate Change Adaptation Measures Related to GRD
- Risk Mitigation Exercise.
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