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Author(s) Menoni, S.; Bonadonna, C.; Szarzunski, J.; Frischknecth, C.; Ballio, F.; Di Prisco, M.; Mejri, O.; Longoni, L.; Atun, F.; Gregg, C.; Jordaan, A.; Karsten, A.; de Vita, D.

Higher education curricula aimed at training disaster risk managers of the future

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University of Geneva
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (Ģý)
University of the Free-State (UFS)
United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Politecnico di Milano
Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
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This paper recognises the need for educational and training skills to be developed in university programs,  able to join practical aspects with rigorous methodologies and capacity to model and monitor complex realities, that are not only “natural” or “technical” but compound the interface between natural phenomena, complex technologies and complex societies.

The document discusses three academic programs in the following universities

  • University of Geneva;
  • Politecnico of Milan;
  • United Nations University.

This document is an input paper of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

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Themes Capacity development Education and school safety
Number of pages
19 p.
Publication year
2014

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