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Academic programmes across the world which offer education on all levels (including bachelor, master, diploma, etc.) related to disaster risk reduction.

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Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development

The Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development aligns with global and national best practice, and is ideal if you’re passionate about sustainable development, community resilience or humanitarian response.
Type
University programme
Location: New Zealand Duration 1.5 years full-time / part-time available
  • Auckland University of Technology
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In person

Diplomado en Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, Continuidad Operacional y Resiliencia

Description El mundo está expuesto a distintos tipos de amenazas, sean estas de origen natural, de origen antrópico o ambas. Hemos sufrido sismos, aluviones, incendios forestales, períodos de contaminación ambiental y una larga lista de otros eventos
Type
Online course
  • Instituto Profesional de Logística y Gestión Integral de Riesgos - Chile
Academic programme
In person

Building Water Essentials: Certificate Program - open

This course will provide participants a baseline understanding of how building water systems are designed, how they operate and when problems arise, and how those problems can be resolved.
Type
Online course
Duration This course is a series of self-paced learning modules that will take approximately 10 hours to complete.
  • Purdue University
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In person

Diploma in Disaster Management

This integrated programme defines humanitarian response within the framework of an understanding of development, with vulnerability and disaster risk reduction as an integral part of development.
Type
Online course
Duration Six months
  • Strategia Netherlands
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In person

The Fundamentals of Insurance-Linked Securities

Students will undertake a program that takes a theoretical and practical approach to Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS), looking at what they are, how they are used, and the role they play in narrowing the gap between economic and insured losses.
Type
Online course
Location: Belarus Duration 6 weeks
  • Belarusian State University
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In person

Post-graduate course: Performance-based seismic design

This course, which has been in operation for the past 12 years, was originally conceived as a means of simultaneously training professional engineers as well as MSc students.
Type
Online course
Location: Trinidad and Tobago Duration 4 months
  • University of the West Indies - St. Augustine, the
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In person

Climate Change and Diversity: Sustainable Territorial Development (CCD-STeDe)

CCD-STEDE is a world-leading programme in the field of sustainable territorial development in the context of climate justice. CCD-STEDE is a two-year Master Degree course (120 ECTS credits) training researchers and professionals.
Type
University programme
Location: Italy Duration 2 years
  • Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
  • Universidade da Madeira
Academic programme
In person

Postgraduate Course: Public Management in Civil Defense and Protection

This course has as the target audience professionals with higher education and who work in the Civil Defense and Protection System in the three spheres of government, as well as workers from the private sector, entrepreneurs, and volunteers.
Type
Continuing education
Location: Brazil Duration 1 year
  • Federal University of Juiz de Fora

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