Organization: University College London
Registration deadline: 03 Sep 2016
Starting date: 09 Sep 2016
Ending date: 09 Sep 2016
Do you know how to effectively future-proof the disaster recovery projects you’re working on?
Is your organisation ready to effectively assist people and businesses to survive a post-disaster situation, and to future-proof them against that disaster risk?
Can your organisation successfully deliver according to the Sendai Framework, highlighted in the UN World conference on disaster risk reduction held in Sendai in March 2015?
UCL is pleased to announce a new one-day course that will help you do just that.
UCL’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) is a cross-disciplinary group of experts bringing together the wealth of knowledge and research in risk and disaster recovery.
Covering areas such as project management and the built environment, it will help you enable your organisation to successfully plan and deliver complex, forward-looking reconstruction and retrofit after a major disruptive incident.
Discover the latest research and thinking from around the world from experts who have first-hand experience with major international and domestic disaster reconstruction and retrofit (such as earthquakes, floods and landslides).
This intensive course includes a combination of lectures, group discussions and exercise.
You will also have access to an online environment where you can find reading materials, recordings of the lectures and further resources.
Course content
During this course we'll cover the following areas:
- The links between development, post-disaster recovery and reconstruction and their relevance to disaster risk reduction (DRR)
- Understanding the multidimensional nature of post-disaster recovery and the role of reconstruction and stakeholder engagement in reducing future disaster risks
- How to integrate different tools for DRR into reconstruction and recovery projects and programmes
The provisional programme is as follows:
- Introduction and course format
- Linking recovery and development: practical implications for disaster risk reduction
- Unpacking multidimensional recovery and positioning reconstruction and retrofitting projects and programmes
- Reconstruction policies and involvement of stakeholders
- Case study presentations and discussion
- Open discussion
- A scenario-based exercise on incorporating DRR strategy and measures into reconstruction programmes
Reducing Disaster Risk During Reconstruction and Retrofit: Develop Future-Proof Projects9 September 2016 (one day course)
Course team:
- Professor David Alexander
- Dr Farnaz Arefian (Course Director)
- Dr Cassidy Johnson
- Dr Carmine Galasso
- Bayes Ahmed
- Dr Robert Wicks
Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.
How to register:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/courses/reducing-disaster-risk-reconstruction-retrofit