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Discover learning opportunities that align with your interests and career goals in building disaster resilience.

This page provides a curated list of academic programmes focused on disaster risk reduction (DRR), resilience, climate change adaptation, and related fields. Whether you are a student, researcher, or professional looking to advance your knowledge, you can find degree programs, short courses, and training opportunities from institutions worldwide.

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Building Water Essentials: Certificate Program
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.
  • Purdue University
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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.
  • Strategia Netherlands
Academic programme
Belarus
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.
  • Belarusian State University
Academic programme
Trinidad and Tobago
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.
  • University of the West Indies - St. Augustine, the
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Italy
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.
  • Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
  • Universidade da Madeira
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Brazil
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.
  • Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Academic programme
Italy
Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change
The Master of Research in Science and Management of Climate Change is a 1-year programme aimed at creating experts capable of managing the complex and multi-faceted dimensions of the grand challenges posed by climate risk.
  • Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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New Zealand
Bachelor of Climate Change
The Bachelor of Climate Change is a unique and flexible degree providing knowledge that transcends traditional subject areas to meet the growing demand for experts who will help solve this complex, global issue.
  • University of Waikato