Are you studying Earth-, Engineering- or Social Science and are you keen on learning more about Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)? Are you interested in working in the field of disaster risk management and/or prevention?
Disasters are complex phenomena which increasingly tackle our daily lives now and in the future. Thus, it becomes more and more important to have well-informed and trained people to mitigate the social, infrastructural, and economic challenges due to disaster risk.
Disaster Risk Reduction touches upon every professional field in its own way. It does not matter if you are an ecologist, an engineer, a teacher or a sociologist – you can contribute to a more resilient society by integrating your skills into the overall theme of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Rwth Aachen University Division Of Earth Sciences And Geography
During a one-week course organized by the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) and the Environmental Campus of UAS Trier you will learn the basics of risk management and risk prevention as well as explore the topic in real life on different field trips, as to the Ahr Valley or to the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) in Bonn. The Summer School does not only focus on theory but also on practical input in order to apply Disaster Risk Reduction.
Prevention focuses on raising risk awareness. Effective risk communication for example can have major impacts on the level of damage caused by an extreme event. Risk communication does not only include a well-functioning network but also awareness raising strategies to strengthen and increase public risk awareness. Further, accurate risk analysis is an indispensable means for prevention.
Path dependency and inertia are potentially hindering risk awareness. Nevertheless, the increasing amount of extreme weather events with devastating consequences show the importance of risk awareness in general and awareness raising activities. Thus, we raise the questions of how public risk awareness can be strengthened and what different methods and means are existing to do so. Further, we will discuss about how the gap between science and practice can be closed when it comes to Disaster Risk Reduction.
Apru Irides Multi Hazards Summer School 2019
Nevertheless, it must be noted that all the efforts to date to come to a significant reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions have not been successful. For this reason - in addition to local and regional adaptation strategies and measures- to cope with the consequences of climate change, geoengineering or climate engineering methods are increasingly being discussed and are partially introduced in some regions. To highlight these hidden approaches, the module will discuss geoengineering – concepts as an idea of mitigation, with a special view to expected regional effects.
Reviewing the forecasts for future challenges due to climate change, questions arise on how to best prepare for such extreme weather events. Fostering formation through drills and trainings, adapt emergency planning, optimizing processes and provide resources are only some means for protection and features of strategic risk management.
Nevertheless, such activities need to be planned, organized, monitored, etc. What lessons can be learned from past extreme events? Where is potential for improvement? What does strategic risk management mean and how is it realized? How well are we prepared for future extreme events? In this section we try to find answers to these questions and discuss about the strategic complexity of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Iscriviti Alla Summer School Del Cervene
Response means a fast-acting operative risk management in case of a disaster. Actors need to be able to quickly get an overview of the situation, warn the population and convene a crisis team. Further, an effective crisis communication needs to be implemented.
So, how do these steps look like in reality? How can a disaster operation look like? How do you rescue people and organize evacuation camps? These and more interesting questions will be discussed together with an expert from the field. Insights into operative risk management will be provided and questions will be answered. We will learn how risk communication turns into crisis communication and how you make society function during a disaster. Gaps between science and practice will be discussed as well as lessons learned and potential for improvement.
After a disaster the implemented measures as well as the whole event needs to be reflected and evaluated in order to learn for similar situations in the future. Findings are generated and emergency plans are adapted based on the gathered knowledge.
Emergency Medicine Summer School
July 2021. Thus, we want to look back and learn what has happened since this disastrous event and to what extent the Ahr Valley has recovered? Is a full recovery even possible? What are the future plans for such a region that was hardly hit by a flood and how to build back better? What complex effects does such an event cause that might not become visible in the very first moments but on a later stage? Interesting insights will be provided and the participants have the chance to share own ideas and thoughts regarding the complexity of disaster recovery.
This workshop provides an introduction to open geo data and its applications in disaster risk management. The session will focus on OpenStreetMap, a collaborative mapping platform that allows users to create and share spatial data and derived maps of the world. Participants will learn how OpenStreetMap works and how it is used within the humanitarian community. The workshop will feature a hands-on component where attendees will learn how to query and extract data from OpenStreetMap and combine it with other geospatial information. This will be followed by a practical exercise in which participants will use the extracted data to create web maps that visualizes the combined data as a situational overview.
We will visit the Municipality of Ahrweiler, the region that was hardly hit by the flood in July 2021, together with an expert of the field who will reflect on that catastrophic event and explain what can be learnt from such a disaster. Key factors will be examined that can be declared as responsible for the devastating extent of the flood. The participants will be able to get an own picture of the region two years after the event and experience themselves the local recovery process. Further, we will visit the former government bunker in Ahrweiler.
By The Numbers Winter 2019 2020
The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk) is the German civil defense and disaster relief organization. The main tasks of the Technical Relief Agency consist of civil protection, disaster protection and international support mainly in case of disasters as well as several public tasks. We will visit the organization in its headquarter in Bonn and get interesting and exciting insights into the real world of disaster risk management.
The Bonn Network International Civil Protection and Disaster Risk Reduction was founded in 2017 to promote networking and exchange between Bonn-based national and international actors from politics, civil society, science and the private sector.
In this excursion, the objectives of a national park as well as national and international standards will be introduced. Beside the presentation of the highlights of the park “Hunsrück-Hochwald” -the most recent national park in Germany- ecosystem services with view to disaster prevention will be focused. In the Hunsrück case, the relevance of bogs in water extreme events (droughts, heavy rainfalls, floods) are highlighted in the field, and their vulnerability regarding overuse of water and changes in the hydrological regime are discussed.
Cdrfi Competence Center
Along the Moselle, a dike ensures flood protection for the city of Trier. For example, the flood event of December 1993 was held off by the dike and the city was protected from major flooding. As the dike that was built in the 1930s started to show several deficits in the last years, it has now been refurbed. In addition to the purely technical rehabilitation measures on the dam body, urban and landscape planning measures have also been implemented, making the entire section more attractive and inviting for visitors and passers. Together with Professor Dr. Kreiter from Trier University of Applied Science and consultant engineer at LP Engineering GmbH, we will discover these synergy effects between dike protection and landscape architecture that have been harmonized in an ideal way.
Dr. Benni Thiebes is the Managing Director of the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) located in Bonn, Germany. He has been working as a researcher and consultant for disaster risk management and natural hazards and risks with a focus on landslide monitoring and early warning systems in Europe, East- and South-East Asia and the Pacific for more than 15 years. He has authored more than 30 articles in scientific journals and books, held numerous presentations at international conferences, moderated workshops, and consulted different regional administrations and institutions. Furthermore, he teaches on ‘News Media in Disaster Risk Reduction’ at the Universities of Vienna and Bonn. Benni Thiebes has several years of experience in project acquisitions from national and international funding agencies, as well as the management of international projects and teams.
Dr. Harald Egidi graduated in forest sciences in Munich and Zurich 1984 with his thesis The coppicing in Siegerland - using the example of three special cooperatives compared to the last 100 years. Following his legal clerkship in Hachenburg, Kelberg and Koblenz, he earned his doctorate at the department of Forest Yield Science at the
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