EMI Urban Resilience Webinar Series

EMI’s Institute of Urban Resilience (IUR) offers the Urban Resilience Webinar series as an innovative learning experience for professionals. In these Web-based seminars you will learn from and interact real-time with world-renown experts on the most relevant urban resilience and disaster risk management (DRM) topics. The Webinars provide a structured and comprehensive lecture on the topic with pertinent examples and case studies to facilitate the learning process. Wherever you might be located, you will be able to ask questions to the experts and interact real-time with your peers to get answers. This enables a more effective learning process.

This year, the webinar series consists of two Webinar Sessions:

• Tools in Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management
  (coming this September 4, 2015)
  This webinar introduces climate change and its effect on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction efforts. It also provides an overview of tools for disaster risk management professionals to integrate climate change in their risk assessments and strategic plans.
• Nature-Based Strategies for Coastal Defense
  (coming this November)
  This webinar provides an introduction to nature-based strategies along with examples of where these solutions have been implemented and some lessons learned and best practices. The webinar compares natural and structural solutions (soft and hard armoring) and discusses some of the pros and cons of nature-based strategies. It also provides an introduction to layered defense strategies.