Earthquake and Megacities Initiatives (EMI) in partnership with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, is pleased to announce the offering of the online course on Earthquake Risk Reduction (ERR) on March 31 – April 30, 2014. The ERR course is a specialized course under the Global Distance Learning Program on Natural Disaster Risk Management.
This four-week course is designed to link the science and engineering of earthquakes to structural and non-structural risk reduction practices. The course introduces the basic approaches to earthquake risk reduction, discussing the effectiveness of each in various regions of the world. It provides essential information on earthquakes including the fundamental as well as proximate causes of earthquakes. It presents a step-by-step guide to developing an earthquake risk reduction program, as well as the four basic approaches to earthquake risk reduction.
Online registration is open until 28 March 2014 through this link.
For more info about course packages and group discounts, please kindly check this link.
