Program

The winter school will start on January, 6 2022 and end on January 25, 2022

There will be weekly seminars: 30min guest speaker + 1 hour class discussion (starting at 10:00am Boston time)

Students are responsible to complete short weekly assignments.

Guest Speakers: Scholars and practitioners, including members of the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) will join the course as guest speakers. Formally established in 2008, PEDRR is a global alliance of UN agencies, NGOs and specialist institutes. As a global thematic platform of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), PEDRR seeks to promote and scale-up implementation of Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) where partners implement collectively planned initiatives and activities.

Assignments: Students are asked to read a couple of readings every week and complete an assignment. The assignment is very simple: identifying 3 points of interest in the readings and discussing them. The assignment is prep for class discussion. Assignments are not graded but have to be submitted before class.