Advanced Master in Disaster Risk Management

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Today, knowledge and skills for applied research and the use of instruments and tools for disaster risk management and climate governance are essential.

This master's degree seeks to train professionals with knowledge and skills for applied research, and the use of instruments and tools for disaster risk management and climate governance, facilitating an approach to the interventions and needs of global climate governance. which is related according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to “voluntary mechanisms and measures aimed at directing social systems towards the prevention or mitigation of the risks of climate change, or adaptation to them” (Jagers and Steripple, 2005, in IPCC Glossary).

Module I Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change. Concepts and Context

• Unit 1: Risk Management and Climate Change Management
• Unit 2: Disaster Risk and Climate Change
• Unit 3: A Systemic Approach to Risk Management and Climate Change Management
• Unit 4: Approach to Actions and Strategies for Comprehensive Disaster Risk and Climate Change Management

Module II Prospective and Corrective Risk Management

• Unit 1: Context and Conceptualization of Risk Awareness towards Its Prospective and Corrective Management
• Unit 2: Prospective and Corrective Management. Risk Assessment
• Unit 3: Reducing Risks through Prospective Interventions
• Unit 4: Reducing Risks through Corrective Interventions

Module III Climate Variability and Climate Change

• Unit 1: The Climate System
• Unit 2: Weather, Climate and Climate Change
• Unit 3: Climate Change
• Unit 4: Vulnerability Analysis and Climate Change Risk (CCR)

Module IV ICT and GIS Applications in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change

• Unit 1: Introduction to IT, GIS, GPS, DB, and Telecom
• Unit 2: Basic Tools to Collect Geolocalized Data in a Database
• Unit 3: QGIS Desktop Tool and the Creation of Web Geoservices with GeoServer
• Unit 4: Creating Maps. Layers, Cartography, Cadastre, Census, and GIS Analysis to Obtain Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Maps

Module V Disaster Risk Financial Protection and Climate Finance

• Unit 1: Context and Conceptualization of Disaster Risk Financial Protection and Climate Finance
• Unit 2: Disaster Risk Financial Protection in Public Investment
• Unit 3: Disaster Risk Financial Protection in Private Investment
• Unit 4: Climate Finance

Module VI Disaster Management and Recovery

• Unit 1: Context and Concepts of Development-oriented Disaster Management and Recovery
• Unit 2: Disaster Management and Recovery Planning
• Unit 3: Information Management and Response and Recovery Assessments
• Unit 4: Disaster Management and Development Oriented Recovery Strategies and Instruments

Module VII Climate Governance

• Unit 1: Why Is Climate Governance Necessary?
• Unit 2: Governance: Countries, Cities, and Communities
• Unit 3: Strategic Sector Governance
• Unit 4: Capacities and Challenges of Climate Governance

Module VIII Global Warming Mitigation Tools

• Unit 1: The Close Link between Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Global Warming (GW)
• Unit 2: International Mitigation Mechanisms
• Unit 3: Sectoral Mitigation Strategies
• Unit 4: Mitigation Benefit and Opportunities

Module IX Climate Change Adaptation Tools

• Unit 1: Climate Change Foreseeable Risks. Analysis and Vulnerability
• Unit 2: Climate Change Adaptation
• Unit 3: International Adaptation Experience
• Unit 4: Adaptive Sectoral Strategies

Module X Master’s Final Project (MFP)

The program is subject to possible content updates and upgrades.