Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
Entry requirements
See website Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation - Master's Programme | Lund University
Months of entry
September
Course content
The trend of increasing disasters and related losses are global challenges. The changing global risk landscape due to various processes of change such as climate change, urbanisation, and the increasing complexity of modern society poses major challenges for sustainable development and must be addressed with an interdisciplinary approach. A growing number of governments and international organisations acknowledge the necessity to increase their efforts in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation to successfully adjust to changing environments and develop sustainable societies. The Master’s programme in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation has support from national and international authorities, NGOs, UN agencies, and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement.
The programme contributes to meeting the need for qualified professionals who can:
- contribute to resilient and sustainable societies through use of interdisciplinary concepts, methods and tools within disaster risk management and climate change adaptation
- apply skills in resilience, risk assessment, risk communication, capacity assessment, risk-based land use planning, preparedness and contingency planning and disaster response management
- work with capacity development and project design for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in local, national and international organisations or agencies
- utilise and contribute to research in this field
The programme offers a mix of practical and theoretical learning with a strong focus on group work and interaction between students and teaching staff as well as with important actors within this field of study. Examples of the latter are the involvement of experts from national and international organisations in some of the courses and the possibility of taking an elective internship-based course. The programme has connections with potential hosts for interns, where students can apply, and for students conducting research for their Master’s thesis within the UN-system, the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement and Governmental agencies on different administrative levels in various parts of the world. Students come from all over the world and from various academic disciplines, such as engineering science, social science, political science, natural science and environmental science. Even if previous work experience is not a requirement to enter the programme, most of our students have professional or volunteer experience.
Programme courses:Mandatory courses
- Societal Resilience
- Foundations for Risk Assessment and Management
- Capacity Development
- Introduction to Disaster Response Management
- Risk Based Land Use Planning
- Climate Smart Risk Reduction
- Preparedness and Planning
- Risk Perception, Communication and Human Behaviour
- Critical issues in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
- Research Methodology
- Master’s degree project
Information about the courses of the programme - lth.se
Information about the programme overview, structure and courses- lth.se
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- Masters
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
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