Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Governance
English
Credits: 60 ECTS
PRESENTATION
This master’s degree program has been designed to provide professionals from various disciplines with the knowledge and skills necessary for applied research and for managing the resources and tools that can be used in the fields of disaster risk management and climate governance. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate governance refers to mechanisms and voluntary measures aimed at steering social systems toward prevention, mitigation, or adaptation to the risks caused by climate change (Jagers and Steripple, IPCC glossary).
Objectives
The objective of this program is to equip students with the knowledge and skills to:
- Understand disaster risk management as a continuous process shaped by social, cultural, economic, and institutional factors, and that operates in contexts of constant hazards, climate variability, and climate change.
- Identify and analyze the actions and measures required for proactive and corrective risk management.
- Understand disaster risk finance management, climate finance, and post-disaster recovery processes.
- Understand the role and operations of technological and information tools relevant to risk management, climate variability, and climate change.
- Understand the context of climate change and its relationship to Disaster Risk Management.
- Analyze the global climate governance challenges, the key players, and the mechanisms and measures needed to address these challenges.
- Understand the various adaptive climate governance tools and measures implemented by territorial, sectoral, institutional, public, private, and community agencies.
- Encourage the generation of knowledge to promote research and the development of risk management and climate governance approaches.
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
The International Context of Disaster Risk Management (The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction)
International Context of Climate Change. The IPCC: Climate Change: General Information and Scenarios.
Concepts related to disaster risk management and climate change and levels of articulation
Areas of focus for risk management and structural and non-structural interventions for risk reduction
Risk Management by Scenarios
General Principles of Climate Change
The IPCC: Climate Change: General Information and Scenarios
Relationship between development, risk, and disasters (construction-related risks) and the effects and impacts of climate variability and climate change
Extensive and Intensive Risks: Their Impact on Human Development
Inequalities and conditions of vulnerability, and the impacts and effects of climate variability and climate change
Areas for risk management and climate change (ranging from the institutional to the sectoral, private, regional, and community levels)
Participants and Actions for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Risk Management
Planning Tools for Risk Management and Climate Change
Institutional Framework, Entities, and Organizations for the Implementation and Monitoring of Actions
Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change
What does the process-based approach entail (a shift in the approach to emergency and disaster response) in the context of climate variability and change?
Strategic Processes: Planning, Organization, and Monitoring
Mission processes: Risk awareness, risk reduction, and disaster management
Support Processes: Strengthening Human Resources Knowledge, Public Communication, and Information
Strategies for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management in the Context of Climate Variability and Climate Change
Disaster Risk Management
Disaster Risk Management and Its Internal Context
Disaster Risk Management and Its External Context
Disaster Risk Management and Its Process Context
Disaster Risk Criteria
Disaster Risk Identification
Disaster Risk Analysis
Disaster Risk Assessment
Disaster Risk Monitoring
Illustrative Examples of Disaster Risk Assessment
Context and Conceptualization of Disaster Risk Reduction
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