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Community Preparedness, Recovery and Resilience: An Introduction (FutureLearn)

Offered by Coventry University,

Explore disaster management and how communities can build resilience and cope after a disaster. Discover the challenges of building resilience in communities. A community can experience a range of direct and indirect impacts as a result of a disaster. On this course, you will be able to examine the ways communities recover from dramatic changes by preventing future risk and fostering positive developments with communities.

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You will have the opportunity to explore the link between community resilience, disaster management and sustainable development.
You will also have the opportunity to explore the link between disaster management and sustainable development.
This course is part of the program Community Preparedness, Recovery and Resilience, which is one of the building blocks that leads to degrees in MSc Emergency Management and Resilience and MSc Disaster Management and Resilience.

What topics will you cover?

Disaster trends and their impact on community resilience
Factors that contribute to the perception of vulnerability
The capacity for communities to cope with disaster
Different approaches for building community resilience

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Assess vulnerability in the local context and its external influencing factors
Explore community capacities for coping with risks and disasters
Assess the relationship between community vulnerability, capacity and resilience
Identify the skills and attributes required by practitioners working with communities to enhance resilience

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