Master's Degree in Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Strategies and Tools
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 intended to steer 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 rooted in social, cultural, economic, and institutional circumstances, and one 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 case studies, digital tools, and the guidance of a specialized teaching team.
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 to reduce risk
- 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
- Current and Future Risk Processes
- Prospective intervention
- Risk Reduction Measures - Prospective Intervention (Future Risk)
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
- Corrective action (mitigation of current risk)
- Reducing vulnerability and improving resilience and capacity through structural and non-structural measures
- Financial Protection
- Social Actors Working to Reduce Disaster Risk
- Illustrative examples of corrective interventions
- Introduction to the Climate System
- Structure and Components of the Climate System
- The Atmosphere and Life on Earth
- The Importance of the Hydrological Cycle in Climate Regulation
- Natural Drivers of Climate Change
- Energy Balance in the Climate System
- Changes in the Climate System
- The Oceans and the Atmosphere: Essential Interactions for Weather
- Climate Variability
- Weather, Climate, and Climate Change in Strategic Systems
- Anthropogenic Drivers of Climate Change
- History of Climate Change
- Observed Trends in Climate Change: First-Tier Effects
- Global Scenarios of Climate Change
- The Importance of 1.5°C
- Expected Trends in Climate Change: Second-Tier Effects
- Climate Change Vulnerability
- Dimensions of Vulnerability and Climate Change Risk
- Disaster Risk (DR) and Climate Change Risk (CCR)
- Examples
- Introduction to Information Technology and Technological Advances
- Databases / DB, data storage, and database management systems.
- GIS, GPS, and Coordinate Systems
- Using Google Earth Pro to Find Coordinates and Maps
- The GPS Essentials App and How to Collect Data from GPS Using Android Smartphones.
- Creating a Data Collection Form: Recommendations for Creating Data Storage Structures
- Kobotoolbox
- Typeform
- GISCLOUD
- Fullcrum App
- QGIS Basic Tools (I)
- QGIS Basic Tools (II)
- What Are WMS and WFS Geoservices?
- Creating WMS or WFS with Geoserver and Their Applications (I)
- Creating WMS or WFS with Geoserver and Their Applications (II)
- The Relationship Between Risk Management, Land Registry, Census, and Cartography
- Creating Maps of Urban Land Use and Critical Infrastructure.
- GIS Analysis with QGIS and ArcGIS Desktop: A Demonstration
- Susceptibility, Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Maps: Differences, Map Types, and Mapping Methodologies
- Climate Models and Climate Trends
- Conceptualization of Financial Protection Against Disaster Risk
- Conceptualization of Climate Finance
- Disaster Risk Financial Protection and Climate Finance as Components of Fiscal Management
- Legal Framework for Financial Protection Against Disaster Risks and Climate Finance
- Benefits of Grouping Risks
- Disaster Risk Financial Protection Strategies
- Disaster Risk Retention Tools
- Disaster Risk Financing Tools
- Disaster Risk Transfer Tools
- Disaster Risk Analysis and Climate Change Criteria in Public Investment
- Risk Management
- Insurance
- Types of Insurance
- Disaster Contingency Plans in the Event of a Disaster
- A Financial Perspective on Environmental and Social Risks
- Possible Impacts of Climate Events
- Inclusion of Climate Event Considerations in the Planning Process
- Financial Tools for Responding to Climate Events
- Tax Management to Promote Climate Change Adaptation
- Green Funds/Green Bonds
- Concepts of Emergencies and Disasters
- Concepts of Development-Oriented Recovery
- Context of Development-Oriented Disaster Response and Recovery
- Effects and Impacts of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Disaster Response and Recovery
- Cross-Cutting Issues Related to Development-Oriented Disaster Management
- Disaster Management and Recovery Processes
- Preparedness and Alerts
- Emergency Response Procedures
- Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Process
- Territorial Levels and Work Areas
- Response Information
- Instruments and Needs Assessments
- Information Management in Development-Oriented Recovery
- Damages, Loss, and Recovery Needs Assessment
- Recovery: An Assessment from the Perspectives of the Government, the Private Sector, and Communities
- Disaster Management and the Humanitarian Agenda: Strategies
- Emergency Response and Disaster Management Tools
- Post-Disaster Development-Oriented Recovery Strategies
- Post-Disaster Development-Oriented Recovery Planning and Implementation Tools
- Disaster Response and Recovery Actions: Technical and Resource Implementation Needs
- How is a territory defined?
- Territorial analysis based on political boundaries
- Territorial analysis based on environmental boundaries
- Global, regional, national, and local territorial scales
- Territory in environmental and disaster risk management
- Diagnostic instruments in different types of management
- Characteristics of geological hazards
- Characteristics of hydrometeorological hazards
- Characteristics of biological hazards
- Environmental impact assessment studies
- Planning and its environmental dimension
- Spatial planning
- Disaster risk management planning and climate change planning instruments
- Environmental planning
- Sustainable development planning
- Operational planning instruments
- River basin management plans
- Environmental management plans (EMPS)
- Emergency contingency plans
- Citizen oversight plans
- Risk management in public investment
- Advances and challenges for risk management in public investment
- Governance for public management and disaster risk management
- Advances in disaster risk governance
- Evaluation of the state of incorporation of risk management in public investment
- Probabilistic analysis instruments
- Risk analysis instruments in pre-disaster public investment
- Risk reduction instruments in post-disaster public investment
- Risk analysis instruments in public investment at sector level
- Instruments for monitoring public spending
- Risk management in private investment
- The business sector and risk reduction
- Public-private partnerships for disaster risk reduction
- Economic sector: tourism and disaster risk reduction
- Economic sector: agro-industry and disaster risk reduction
- Risk management from the community level
- Vulnerabilities and challenges from the community level
- Community resilience analysis
- Community disaster risk management planning instruments
- Risk assessment instruments at the community level
- Conceptual framework
- Risk reduction strategies
- Incorporating corrective risk management into land-use and environmental planning instruments
- Incorporating corrective risk management in investment
- Steps for corrective disaster risk intervention
- Overview of corrective hazard management
- Structural flood management measures
- Structural management measures for mass movements
- Environmental management measures
- Non-structural measures to reduce the threat
- Corrective vulnerability management
- Structural measures to reduce vulnerability
- Non-structural measures to reduce vulnerability
- Resettlement as a vulnerability reduction measure
- Resettlement - steps to define a process
- Territorial projects
- Sectoral projects
- Climate change adaptation measures related to disaster risk management
- Macro-projects as regional intervention measures
- Resilient infrastructure as corrective risk management
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