Climate risk management

By the end of this mini MOOC, student will understand the concept, value, and social and environmental significance of ecosystem services (ES), recognising their importance for environmental management. Furthermore, they will be able to evaluate landscapes, accurately depicting the impacts of human activities upon them. Additionally, the student will have skills in developing ideas for […]

The student is able to comprehend information about sustainable development and has the ability to apply the concepts of sustainable development for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals in all personal and professional activities.

This Mini-MOOC is relevant information for communicating with local and regional planners of civil servants and the general public as well related to any SDG that includes a spatial dimension from global to local; for the sustainable use of land, adaption and mitigation actions for risks like flooding, soil degradation, ecosystem instabilities and conservation of ecosystems

Principles of regional and urban climates, the mechanics of UHI, and know how to observe urban weather phenomena. You will learn modelling a continuous urban temperature with the aid of remotely sensed data and in-situ observations.

Principles of anthropogenic climate forcing, the current drivers and processes of climate warming and its regional variation, plus the concepts of planetary boundaries, tipping elements and doughnut economy. Furthermore, you will learn how the various anthropogenic decisions and actions materialise as forcing factors contributing to climate change.

Principles of climate change, the major events in climate history and the key natural factors behind climatic variations.

Basics of the climate system and its key processes at the planetary level and in East-Africa. You will also understand the principles of climate classification and its representations.

Learn how to establish a detailed 2-dimensional flood schematisation of a river section in Dar es Salaam within a Graphical User Interface, with the explicit idea that they can reproduce this for other (larger, more complex) river systems.

Learn practical skills to turn a hazard map in a flood impact map within the already known QGIS interface. Consolidate knowledge on the concept of hazard, exposure and vulnerability.

Learn hands-on how a digital terrain model and a vector dataset of main streams can be used to make flood zoning maps for these main streams, and what the practical use of such a map is.