Climate risk management

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

You will understand the 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.

You will understand the principles of climate change, the major events in climate history and the key natural factors behind climatic variations.

You will understand the 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.

Understand the concepts of flood hazard mapping, flood exposure mapping, flood vulnerability mapping and flood impact. Furthermore, an overview of different approaches to flood hazard simulations will be presented, including static and hydrodynamic (2D and 1D-2D) flood simulation approaches. You will be able to understand the value and do’s and don’ts of the different approaches,