Geosciences
Integrated Natural Risk Management
Socio-economic approaches to natural hazard management: how society responds to hazards, how exposed elements and damage are valued economically, and which governance and decision-making tools apply.
Overview
About the programme
Socio-economic approaches to natural hazard management: how society responds to hazards, how exposed elements and damage are valued economically, and which governance and decision-making tools apply.
Duration
3 days
Training hours
21 hours
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
What trainees will gain
- Understand social and economic approaches in order to integrate them into risk management.
- Define the stages of the socio-economic assessment of an area exposed to a hazard.
- Learn the different approaches, the parties involved and their roles.
Content
What the programme covers
Risk and society
- The links between risk and the social sciences, society's response to risk, and an overview of the available methods.
Risk economics and demographics
- Concepts of risk economics, economic valuation of exposed elements and damage, and the principle of cost-benefit analysis.
Governance and decision tools
- Natural disaster insurance and compensation schemes, the main issues and methods, and serious games as a tool.
Who for
Target audience
Engineers, researchers and natural risk managers at national and regional authorities.
Method
How it is delivered
Presentations, discussion and simulation exercises.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.