Natural Disaster and Climate Change Risk Assessment
Learn about risk and secure infrastructure. Strengthen your technical skills and decision-making ability, incorporating the analysis of natural disaster risks and resilience to climate change in the design of infrastructure projects.
What you will learn
- Carry out qualitative disaster-risk assessments to guide decision making in infrastructure projects.
- Identify technical and economic feasibility of infrastructure projects through a qualitative or quantitative analysis.
- Make risk-informed recommendations for the design, construction, and operation of infrastructures and develop disaster-risk-governance strategies.
About
his specialized program is aimed at officials, professionals, and team members involved in formulating, executing, or supervising infrastructure projects, who seek to incorporate disaster risk analysis and climate change adaptation into their projects.
Through 3 courses, students will be trained to identify key elements of natural disaster risk, recognize the importance of integrating risk analysis into the infrastructure project cycle, conduct qualitative and quantitative assessments to make informed decisions, discern when to apply each type of risk assessment, evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of projects through qualitative and quantitative analysis, and finally, generate informed recommendations for the design, construction, operation, and governance of infrastructure in a context of risk and climate change.
It is recommended to take the courses in the suggested order.
Modules
- Natural Disaster Risk in Infrastructure Projects
- Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Disaster Risk
- Decision Making and Governance of Natural Disaster Risk