POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN NATURAL HAZARDS AND SPATIAL PLANNING

CERTIFICATE and DIPLOMA

ORGANIZATION
Enrollment

Prerequisits

Schedule

Cost

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APPLICATION
 

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PARTNERS

ORGANIZATION

                            Junta de Extremadura

Instituto Nacional de Meteorología

Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros

Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadiana

University of Extremadura

Department of Geography and Spatial Planning

Natural hazards represent a threat for population, infrastructures and resources. Strategies for reducing and mitigating their impact are diverse and complex, however spatial planning is an area for the integration of the perspectives from different disciplines as well as a preventive policy for the implementation of these strategies for less populated areas and for mitigating the potential impact in those already highly populated areas.

Specialists with a comprehensive understanding of the factors and problems involved as well as with the capability of designing and implementing the strategies in land use policies and resource management are needed.

The Postgraduate Certificate Program in Natural Hazards and Spatial Planning is an option to train professionals in the fields of Natural and Social Sciences, as well as engineers, with a focus on the study of natural resources and the territory.

It is a multidisciplinary program where specialists from several universities, professionals working in the administration and organizations contribute with their experience and expertise in the different fields.

Spatial data technologies is also a component for the training in the use of tools dealing with spatial information. The Program emphasizes the applied perspective by exposing students to cases where solutions had to be envisioned and applied.

OBJECTIVES

• To offer specialised and multidisciplinary postgraduate training in natural hazards.

• To offer a perspective of the problem of risk in relation to environmental and social variables.

• To offer different perspectives of the policy models and the instruments available to manage risk and hazards.

• To offer information on the relationship between hazard and risk management and spatial planning, illustrating the advances and proposals.

• To offer case studies of existing plans in different geographical areas and applied to the different phenomena.

• To offer a training that may allow to elaborate risk, emergency plans, and contribute with an integrative perspective to sectoral, regional and urban planning at several scales.

• To inform about the most recent results and developments in the area.

Specific objectives

• Understand the natural processes that cause natural hazards.

• Understand the processes involved in the work with natural hazards

• Evaluation

• Prediction and monitoring

• Preparedness and mitigation

• Disaster management

• Understand the policies, instruments and tools available for preparedness and response.

• Understand the strategies of spatial planning.

• Understand the tools for the management of spatial and environmental information available.

CERTIFICATION AND DIPLOMA

Completion of the 85 % of the credits and presentation of final research entitle for the Certificate in Natural Hazards and Spatial Planning awarded by the University of Extremadura.

Completion of 60% courses and/or the lack of a university degree qualifies the student for a Diploma in Natural Hazards and Spatial Planning awarded by the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Extremadura.

Enrollment: 23

Prerequisits

Bachelor or Engineer in an accredited university

Schedule

200 hours [147 in theoretical units] [53 in practical units]

Period: January - March 2003

On-campus: January - February 2003

Modules U32 y U33 will be distance-learning based and concluded with a course  research project under supervision, as well as final research project (U35).

From 16:00 to 21:00, from monday to friday

Cost

419,66 €

ORGANIZATION

Director of the Program: Dr. Urbano Fra Paleo

Department of Geography and Spatial Planning

University of  Extremadura

Campus universitario

10071 Caceres

Spain

+34-927 257000 ext 7722

Fax +34-927 257401

upaleo@unex.es