Disaster management
The number of people threatened by floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and other natural hazards has dramatically increased over the last decades. In addition, soil erosion, salinisation, subsidence and other forms of land degradation pose continuous threats to food security and environmental quality. Natural disaster preparedness, hazard prevention and mitigation have become issues of global importance.
Spatial data play an important role at various points in the disaster management cycle, in particular in the preparatory phase of the production of hazard and risk maps, during the disaster in real-time monitoring to support mitigation efforts, and in the aftermath in damage assessment to provide information for rehabilitation and construction.
Overview of courses in geo-information science and earth observation in the disaster management course domain.
ITC's contribution to the UNU mission
As an associated institution of the United Nations University (UNU), ITC contributes to the UNU mission, which is "to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States".
UNU-ITC Joint Programme on Capacity Building in Disaster Risk Management
The cooperation between ITC and the United Nations University is directed at developing and carrying out a joint programme on capacity building in disaster management and in land administration, and at disseminating knowledge on these and directly related issues. The programme activities are accommodated as follows:
To support capacity building efforts, the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Disaster Risk Management offers degree, diploma and certificate courses. These courses are offered in the Netherlands, online and abroad by ITC itself or by ITC in collaboration with reputable qualified educational organisations (joint courses).
