Training event
Delft
Netherlands, the
KULTURisk summer school: Flood risk reduction - Perception, communication, governance
Organizer(s)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Office - IHE DELFT Institute for Water Education
KULTURisk
Format
In person
Venue
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Date
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The summer school will introduce various approaches to risk prevention and management and highlight the importance of measures, risk perception and communication to risk governance and the existing international initiatives and policies in disaster risk reduction. These concepts will be analyzed in the context of water-related hazards such as floods and landslides occurring in coastal areas, mountainous catchments, transboundary large rivers and urban settings, with the understanding that given the multi-hazard approach required in disaster risk reduction, they may be applicable to other natural hazards.
Course content:
- Introduction to risk prevention and risk reduction; terminology of disaster risk management
- International policies in disaster risk reduction
- Governance of risk
- Structural protection measures
- Early warning and preparedness
- Assessments, mapping, planning and risk transfer
- Risk perception and communication: importance, assessment, challenges.