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Governance of Disaster Risk

University of Extremadura via Miríadax

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Overview

The course Disaster Risk Governance seeks to study disaster risk from the perspective of the paradoxes for its reduction in contemporary society. While we see how the economic costs of disasters are increasing in developing countries, the death toll in the developing countries does not diminish and the losses are critically challenging their social and economic development. While society has made great progress in disaster response this is not contributing to significantly advance in disaster risk reduction. However, new emerging paradigms are helping to better understand and tackle some of these challenges, such as a more comprehensive and integrative approach, and combining reactive and proactive policies, and structural and non-structural solutions. The understanding of governance of disaster risk as multihazard, cross-sectoral, multilevel, and participatory may help to envisage a mode of governance to better tackle the challenge of a risk society with increasingly reduced disaster risk and more equitable.

Taught by

Urbano Fra Paleo

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  • Khaled Sharif is taking this course right now, spending 7 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    I have done MS in Disaster Management from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. I want to refresh my knowledge a bit to obtain a DRR job in Bangladesh.

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