Master´s Degree in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Governance + 60 ECTS Credits

Didactic Unit 1. Risk Management And Climate Change Management

• International Context of Disaster Risk Management (Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction)
• International Context of Climate Change (The IPCC: overview and climate change scenarios)
• Concepts related to Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change. Levels of articulation.
• Risk Management Action Lines, and structural and non-structural risk interventions.
• Scenario Risk Management

Didactic Unit 2. Disaster Risk And Climate Change

• Climate Change Overview (Physical Basis of Climate Change)
• The IPCC. Climate Change Overview and Scenarios
• Development - risk - disaster relationship (the construction of risk) and the effects and impacts of climate variability and climate change.
• Extensive and intensive hazards, the effects of climate variability and climate change, and their impact on human development
• Inequalities and conditions of vulnerability and the impacts and effects of climate variability and climate change.

Didactic Unit 3. Systemic Approach To Risk Management And Climate Change Management

• Spheres for Risk and Climate Change Management (from institutional to sectoral, private sector, territorial, community)
• Actors and actions for disaster risk management
• Risk and Climate Change Management Planning Instruments
• Institutionality, entities and organisations for the implementation and monitoring of actions.
• Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change

Didactic Unit 4. Process Approach And Strategies For Integrated Disaster Risk And Climate Change Management

• What is involved in the Process Approach (the changing approach to emergency and disaster response) in the context of climate variability and climate change.
• Strategic Processes (Planning, Organisation and Monitoring)
• Mission Processes (Knowledge, Reduction, Preparation/implementation)
• Support Process (Knowledge and Capacity Building of Human Resources, Public Communication, Information for Decision-Making and Information Systems)
• Strategies for integrated disaster risk management in the context of climate variability and climate change.

Didactic Unit 1. Context And Conceptualisation Of Risk Knowledge For Prospective And Corrective Risk Management

• Disaster risk management
• Internal context for disaster risk management.
• The external context for disaster risk management.
• Context of the disaster risk management process.
• Disaster risk criteria.

Didactic Unit 2. Risk Assessment For Prospective And Corrective Risk Management

• Disaster risk identification.
• Disaster risk analysis.
• Disaster risk assessment.
• Disaster risk monitoring
• Illustrative examples of disaster risk assessment.

Risk Reduction Through Prospective Interventions

• Context and conceptualisation of disaster reduction.
• Current and future risk reduction processes.
• Prospective intervention
• Mitigation measures - prospective intervention (future risk).
• Resilience for disaster risk reduction.

Didactic Unit 4. Risk Reduction Through Corrective Interventions

• Corrective intervention (mitigation of current risk).
• Reducing vulnerability and increasing capacities and resilience, through structural and non-structural measures.
• Financial protection.
• Social actors in disaster risk reduction.
• Illustrative examples of corrective interventions.

Didactic Unit 1. Concepts Of Climatology

• Climate: definition
• Climate: elements and factors
• Climatology: methods of study
• The climate system

Didactic Unit 2. Radiation, Terrestrial Energy Balance. Temperature

• General concepts
• Radiation
• Solar-type radiation
• Earth's energy balance
• Solar radiation and its spatial distribution
• Incident radiation at a point: calculation
• Temperature
• Natural greenhouse effect: gases and mechanisms
• Energy balance disturbances: natural and human causes

Didactic Unit 3. Climate And Its Classification

• Climate and generalities
• Climate classification based on temperature and precipitation
• The Koppen classification
• Strahler's classification
• Types of climates
• Mountain climates
• Historical climatic events: Little Ice Age, Medieval Climate Optimum
• Methods of reconstructing past climate: climate witnesses

Didactic Unit 4. The Limits Of The Planet

• Biodiversity, "finiteness" of natural resources and "irreversibility" linked to extinction
• Renewable resources. Current overexploitation of these resources.
• Renewable resources and environmental refugee conflicts

Didactic Unit 5. The Depletion Of Non-renewable Resources

• Non-renewable resources, minerals and energy resources
• The problems generated by their use and conflicts over their control

Didactic Unit 6. Climate Change

• Evidence of current climate change
• Future projections for global average temperature as greenhouse gas emissions change
• The impoverished countries are and will be most affected, the regions and ecosystems that will be particularly affected by climate change, and projections of the economic effects of climate change globally.
• Fighting climate change is possible, based on global action, mitigation and adaptation.

Didactic Unit 7. Climate Modelling: Future Scenarios And Projections

• History and evolution of climate modelling
• Components of climate models
• Types of climate models
• Reference scenarios
• IPCC and CMIP6 simulations
• Projections of key climate variables

Unit Didactic Unit 8. Carbon Footprint As a Measure Of Change

• Evolution of the carbon footprint concept
• International norms and standards
• Carbon footprint categories
• Scope of application and calculation objects
• What is Life Cycle Assessment?

Didactic Unit 9. Compensation. Climate Neutrality And Decarbonisation Strategies

• Climate neutrality and Net Zero targets
• Reduction or compensation strategies?
• Carbon offsetting mechanisms
• Carbon markets and emissions trading systems

Didactic Unit 10. Keys To Sustainable Adaptation

• Difference between mitigation and adaptation
• Local, national and global adaptation strategies
• Climate-resilient infrastructure and ecosystem-based solutions
• Integrating climate change into spatial and sectoral planning

Didactic Unit 1. Introduction. Informatics, Sig, Gps, Bd, Telecom

• Introduction to IT and technological developments.
• Database, data storage, database administration.
• GIS, GPS, Coordinate Systems.
• Use of Google Earth Pro to locate coordinates and maps.
• GPS Essentials collecting data from the Android phone's GPS.

Didactic Unit 2. Basic Tools For Collecting Geolocalised Data In a Database

• Creating a collection form, recommendations for creating the storage structure.
• Use of Kobotoolbox.
• Use of typeform.
• Use of GISCLOUD.
• Using the Fulcrum App .

Didactic Unit 3. Use Of Qgis Desktop Tools And Wms And Wfs Geoservices

• Basic QGIS tools (I)
• Basic QGIS tools (II)
• What are WMS or WFS Geoservices?
• Creating WMS or WFS services with GeoServer (I)
• Creating WMS or WFS services with GeoServer (II)

Didactic Unit 4. Creation Of Maps, Layers: Cartography, Cadastre, Census, And Sig Analysis To Obtain Hazard, Vulnerability And Risk Maps

• Relationship between cadastre, census, cartography and risk management.
• Creation of land use and vital infrastructure maps.
• GIS analysis with QGIS and demonstration with ArcGIS Desktop.
• Susceptibility maps, hazard, vulnerability and risk maps. Their differences and types of maps, methodologies of elaboration.
• Climate models and climate foresight.

Didactic Unit 1. Context And Conceptualisation Of Disaster Risk Financial Protection And Climate Finance

• The conceptualisation of disaster risk financial protection.
• The conceptualisation of climate finance.
• Disaster risk financial protection and climate finance as a component of fiscal management.
• Legal framework for disaster risk financial protection and international agreements related to climate finance
• Benefits of risk pooling.

Didactic Unit 2. Financial Protection Of Disaster Risk And Climate Change Criteria In Investment

• PUBLIC
• Disaster risk financial protection strategies.
• Disaster risk retention instruments
• Disaster risk financing instruments.
• Disaster risk transfer instruments.
• Disaster risk analysis and climate change criteria in the public investment process

Didactic Unit 3. Financial Protection Of Disaster Risk In Private Investment

• Risk management.
• Introduction to insurance.
• Types of insurance.
• Disaster contingency plans.
• The financial sector's view of environmental and social risks.

Didactic Unit 4. Climate Finance

• Potential impacts of climatic events.
• Inclusion of climate event considerations in the investment process.
• Financial instruments to cope with the occurrence of climate events.
• Tax management to promote climate change adaptation.
• Green bonds and green climate fund

Didactic Unit 1. Context And Conceptualisation Of Disaster Management And Development-oriented Recovery

• Conceptualisation of emergencies and disasters
• Conceptualisation of a developmental approach to recovery
• The context of disaster management and recovery with a development focus
• Response, recovery, and the effects and impacts of climate variability and change
• Cross-cutting issues in disaster management and development-led recovery

Didactic Unit 2. Disaster Management And Recovery Planning

• Processes for disaster management and recovery
• Preparations and alerts
• Emergency response processes
• The post-disaster recovery planning process
• Territorial levels and sectors of work

Unit 3. Information Management And Assessments For Response And Recovery

• Information for the response
• Tools and needs assessment for the response
• Information management for recovery with a development focus
• The assessment of damage, loss and recovery needs
• Recovery: assessments from government sectors, the role of the private sector and communities

Didactic Unit 4. Strategies And Instruments For Disaster Management And Recovery With a Development Focus

• Disaster Management Strategies and the Humanitarian Agenda
• Emergency and disaster response instruments
• Post-disaster recovery strategies with a development focus
• Instruments for development-based post-disaster recovery planning and implementation
• Technical and resource needs for the implementation of response and recovery actions

Didactic Unit 1. Why Is Climate Governance Necessary?

• What is governance?
• Differences between government, governance and governance
• Social governance, environmental governance and climate governance
• Scales of climate governance: global, regional and local governance
• Governance gaps

Didactic Unit 2. Local Governance, Countries, Cities And Communities

• Needs for effective responses to climate change in countries with diverse contexts
• Barriers to climate action
• Local governance (countries and cities)
• Local governance (communities)
• Examples from some countries and territories

Didactic Unit 3. Governance In Some Strategic Sectors

• Agricultural governance
• Examples of agricultural gorbernance
• Water governance
• Examples of water governance
• Climate governance in coastal zones

Didactic Unit 4. Capacities And Challenges For Climate Governance

• Necessary transformations in the states, opportunities, challenges and challenges
• Vision of other actors present in the territory
• Participatory governance and consultation processes
• Governance systems for sustainable development
• Climate governance and disaster risk governance

Didactic Unit 1. The Close Relationship Between Greenhouse Gases And Global Warming

• Air pollution
• Global warming and climate change
• Global greenhouse gas emissions
• What is mitigation?
• Policy approaches to mitigation

Didactic Unit 2. International Mitigation Mechanisms

• Nationally determined contributions
• Emissions trading or carbon credits
• Clean Development Mechanisms
• Joint Action and Adaptation Fund
• Non-market-based compensation mechanisms - voluntary market

Didactic Unit 3. Sectoral Mitigation Strategies

• Energy sector
• Industrial sector
• Transport sector
• Housing and construction sector
• Agriculture, forestry and other land use sector

Didactic Unit 4. Benefits And Opportunities Of Mitigation

• Mitigation in the Asian region
• Mitigation measures in the Americas
• Mitigation measures in the African region
• Mitigation measures in Europe
• Mitigation measures in Oceania

Didactic Unit 1. Expected Climate Change Risks In The Dimensions Of Analysis And Vulnerability

• Climate change risk to water resources
• Climate change risk to biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Climate change risk to food security and production systems
• Climate change risk to human settlements and infrastructure
• Climate change risk to human health

Didactic Unit 2: Adapting To Climate Change

• What is climate change adaptation? Resilience
• Approaches to climate change adaptation
• Climate change adaptation options
• Implementing adaptation
• The fine line between underdevelopment and adaptation

Didactic Unit 3: International Experiences In Adaptation

• UNFCCC: International commitments and progress on adaptation
• The Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage
• Some international strategies: Euroclima +
• National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)
• Cities and climate change adaptation

Didactic Unit 4: Adaptive Sectoral Strategies

• Adaptive strategies in integrated water resources management
• Adaptive strategies in biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Adaptive strategies in human settlements and infrastructure
• Adaptive strategies in products and food security
• From climate action to climate crisis: where do we go from here?