Syllabus
Module 1: Foundations of Disaster Risk and Resilience (6 hrs)
- Understanding Hazards: Climate-related extreme events; classification of single and multi-hazard events, their interactions, cascading effects, and the concept of dynamic vulnerability.?
- Overview of disaster typologies and the risk-resilience continuum
- Components: hazard, exposure, vulnerability, coping, adaptive capacity
- ?The Disaster Management Cycle vs. Resilience Cycle
- Multidimensional approaches: environmental, economic, institutional, technological, socio-cultural.?
Module 2: Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Frameworks (6 hrs)
- Sendai Framework for DRR: priorities, targets, indicators
- ?National and subnational frameworks?
- Role of development planning in DRR mainstreaming
- Concepts and Operational Approaches Across? Disaster Timeline: Pre-, during-, and post-disaster management frameworks demonstrated through case studies using relevant tools such as citizen-centric applications, data integration platforms, IoT-based monitoring systems, GIS-based risk platforms, and mobile disaster reporting systems.
Module 3: Resilience Frameworks and Assessment (6 hrs)
- Theoretical foundations of resilience: Global resilience assessment tools?
- Resilience mapping techniques: participatory mapping, systems mapping
- Indicators and composite indices for resilience assessment
- Role of social capital, traditional knowledge, and local institutions
- Gender, caste, age, disability, and intersectionality in disaster response
- ?Measuring resilience: baseline surveys, longitudinal impact studies
- Tools: geospatial dashboards, resilience scorecards, systems mapping.?
Module 4: Tools, Technologies, and Emergency Management Systems (6 hrs)
- ?Real-time monitoring: IoT, Remote Sensing, Drones, AI/ML for disaster prediction
- Early warning systems (hydro-meteorological, geohazard, multi-hazard)
- ?Rapid needs assessment and emergency response protocols (e.g., SPHERE Standards, ICS)
- Digital tools: mobile apps, crisis communication, crowd-sourced reporting
Module 5: Multidimensional Case Studies and Integrated Planning (4 hrs)
- Cyclone Fani (Odisha): risk-informed recovery
- ?Amrita LEWS (Kerala): landslide early warning and community resilience
- ?Urban flooding in Chennai and Mumbai: nature-based solutions
- Community resilience building in indigenous and hilly areas
- 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
- 2023 South Lohnak Lake Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, 2013 Kedarnath Glacial Lake Outburst Floods?
- Other relevant single and multi-hazard case studies.?
- Comparative Analysis of Case Studies: Examination of successes and failures—highlighting lessons learned, strategies that worked or failed, and how effective interventions helped reduce damage despite increasing hazard severity.?
Practical / Field Components (15 hrs)
- ?Resilience scorecard analysis for a selected community
- Scenario planning and simulation-based rapid response
- Resilience systems mapping using participatory approaches
- ?Rapid appraisal using QGIS for hazard overlay and social infrastructure
- ?Case review and critique of national/state DRR plans