Organization: Wageningen University
Start date: 21 Feb 2023
End date: 28 Apr 2023
Registration deadline: 11 Oct 2022
Do you want to become a change manager and enhance your capacity to encourage communities, governments and businesses to adapt climate-related hazards? In this course, we focus on climate related disasters such as floods, cyclones, storm surges and drought and the question how vulnerabilities and exposure to natural hazards can be reduced to build resilient communities.
What will you learn?
This course includes:
- A general introduction & conceptual foundation to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Management (DRM), and the link between CCA and DRM;
- Ways to examine how to integrate CCA and DRM;
- Learnings on how to ‘frame’ the problem -tools for examining the perspectives of different stakeholders over the priority given for disaster risk and climate change;
- Learnings on how to ‘frame’ possible solutions – e.g. intervention tools;
- Lessons on how to influence policies for CCA and DRM – practicing communicating interventions.
How to register
Apply for the Orange Knowledge Programme or MENA Scholarship Programme. On top of this page you can apply for the course 'Managing Risk in the Face of Climate Change. Depending on your nationality, your organisation and the type of course you wish to join, your eligibility and the application procedures may differ.