API disaster management online course

The topics of lectures are listed bellow:

• What is disaster management? What are the basic terms used in this discipline (hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, reparedness, response, recovery etc)?
• Understanding earthquake hazard
• Understanding tsunami hazard
• Cyclones/typhoons/hurricane/tropical storms
• Coastal flooding/sea level rise
• Understanding floods (river flood, flash flood, catastrophic flood, coastal flood), floods in underground infrastructure
• Understanding landslides
• Understanding volcanoes
• Understanding drought (or water scarcity in rural and urban areas)
• What constitutes vulnerability and capacity? And how does it relate to better management of disasters? What is resilience? Can it be measured?
• Weather forecasting and early warning system in Asia and Pacific
• Spatial analysis for disaster management, GIS remote sensing, etc
• Coastal inundation mapping toolkit
• Coastal community resilience framework
• Recovery planning
• Comparative recovery case study from Kobe and San Francisco earthquake
• Understanding urban risk and resilience in megacities context.