Máster Avanzado en Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres

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)

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