Urban Disaster Risk Mitigation and Climate Resilient Development

The course aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the interface between urban development, disaster risk and climate change; the dynamics of risk and variability of climate change; causal factors and impacts of disasters and climate change and the issues involved therein.The course also focuses on disaster and climate resilient urban development, the process, data base requirement, various types of analyses and management and also highlights disaster and climate risk governance.Graduate from any discipline, post graduate students of any discipline, professional from any sector, academicians, researchers and policy/decision makers and anybody who is interested in the subject can enroll in this course.

Week 01:-Urbanization

Week 02:- Phenomenon of climate

Week 03:-Phenomenon of disaster

Week 04:- Impact of disasters

Week 05:-Impact of disasters in India

Week 06:- Impact of climate change

Week 07:- Urban Heat Island

Week 08:- International guidelines and policies for disaster risk

Week 09:-International guidelines and policies for climate change

Week 10:- Resilient development process

Week 11:- Mainstreaming the DRR and CAA- Part I

Week 12:-Mainstreaming the DRR and CAA-Part II

Week 13:- Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction

Week 14:-Climate Change Mitigation

Week 15:- Disaster response and disaster risk governance and risk financing