Disaster Management, Resilience, and Risk Reduction
This course aims to introduce and explore key elements of the theory and practice of disaster management, resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR). With a core focus on vulnerability, participants will apply and critically review emergency-oriented approaches to risk, and compare and contrast these with developmentally-oriented understandings and tools. Models used in practice will be combined with practical tools and approaches including participatory assessment, negotiation and social media.
Objectives
Understand the linkages between development and emergency related concepts of risk, hazards, vulnerability, capacity, assets, governance and discrimination
Critically review different approaches and tools used in practice
Apply planning and analysis tools and approaches to different situations.
Topics
Pressure And Release (PAR) model and the cycle of disaster.
Local to global chronic vulnerability.
Disaster simulation.
Relief-recovery lessons - Philippines’ Typhoon Haiyan.
Livelihoods/resilience model as a people-centered approach for linking elements that determine community level risk.
Assessment tools for people-centred programme design - participatory rapid appraisal (PRA) techniques
Lessons from ALNAP’s 2012 urban disasters lessons paper. Governance, and its central relationship to vulnerability.
