Course Outline
Objective
• Produce trained and skilled personnel and processionals of Disaster Management & Resilience.
• Developing Leadership in the field of Disaster Management & Resilience.
• Create a centre of excellence for research and capacity building in the field of climate change and disaster management.
Mission
The Mission is to equip and empower students with the technical expertise, critical thinking, and experiences required as scholars and practitioners to be competent in a rapidly changing disaster management environment. In addition, the M.S.S program prepares students for high-level professional careers in government and industry or further study for the Ph.D. degree. This program allows students the choice of a range of courses and these career-focused courses will permit the students to become professionals in a range of cutting-edge occupations.
Vision
The ultimate vision is to develop future disaster professionals to conceptualize and strategies to address real world problems by bridging theoretical and practical skills in understanding risks.
BSS in DMR (Hon's) completed students can be apply and eligible for this program.
About Department of Disaster Management & Resilience (DMR): This department intends to facilitate students by developing their skills and creative judgment for effective management of natural and man-made hazards along with climate change related issues through multidisciplinary approach. The mission is to provide theoretical as well as hands-on practical learning through lab-based exercises and field works, this enables our students to solve critical contemporary problems through risk assessment and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The faculty members of this department completed post graduate studies from world renowned institutions from countries like USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Poland, Malaysia, and China, this reflects their capabilities to produce disaster management experts and global leaders. It is worth mentioning that our recent graduates are actively contributing to the disaster management, development, research, and GIS sectors of Bangladesh plus some of them went on to pursue Masters and PhDs in countries like the USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Hungary. The long-term goal of our department is to create personnel who will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Bangladesh Vision 2041 and development of Bangladesh.
Objectives
- • To explain the importance of addressing disaster risks that are shaped and intersect by gender • To gain an understanding of the importance of integrating gender and intersectional analysis into drr work, and of ensuring the active participation of both women and men in these initiatives • To understand the concept and practicalities of gender mainstreaming – to explain the process of gender sensitive disaster risk management from an intersectional approach
Outcomes
- • Understand the basic concepts associated with Disaster, Gender and Intersectionality • Will be able to use gender tools to analyze the different ways in which women, men, transgender, persons with disabilities and others in different categories may be affected by, recover from, and increase their resilience to the impact of disaster • Understand the essential issues a good gender and intersectional analysis should cover, including the identification of practical and strategic gender interests. • Have improved their understanding about the concept of gender mainstreaming as a process for strengthening gender equality by transforming the balance of power between women/men/transgender • Understand gender sensitive disaster risk management for effective DRR, response and recover
References
- 1. Feminist Theories
2. Gender Vulnerability
3.Gender Based Violence
Objectives
- To provide the students with a deeper understanding of disaster management and science with the theories and methodologies that make up its practice.
- To provide the students with a master’s level knowledge of the academic literature.
- To emphasis on knowledge grounded within the research.
Outcomes
- Assess concepts typically associated with scientific research and literature on disaster management and science
- Analyze the scholarly works of scientific researcher with respect to disaster management and science
- Evaluate the impacts of theory (abstract) on operations (reality)
References
- Asgary A., 2005. Technological Disasters’ Cost/loss Data: Current Issues and Future Challenges. 2nd Toulouse–Montreal Conference: The Law, Economics and Management of Large-Scale Risks, September 30 to October 1, 2005, Montreal, Canada.
- Twigg, J., 2015. Disaster Risk Reduction. Overseas Development Institute.
Objectives
- To develop an understanding of statistics
- To develop an understanding of data distribution and patterns
- To develop an understanding of various statistical methods for data analysis.
- To develop ability of perform statistical analysis in different statistical software.
Outcomes
- Distinguish different types of data (geostatistical, areal, point process) and understand how correlation and spatial autocorrelation plays a role in statistical modeling
- Use existing methods to investigate correlation and spatial autocorrelation in example datasets provided as exercises
- Read and discuss new methods in the spatial statistics literature based on an understanding of the basic statistical approaches, principles and main assumptions
References
- 1. O’Sullivan, D. and D. J. Unwin (2002or 2010) Geographic Information Analysis, Wiley
& Sons. Electronic version is available at: http://www.gisresources.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/09/Geographic_information_analysis_2nd.pdf.
2. Mitchell, Andy; Lauren Scott Griffin (2021). The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2:
Spatial Measurements and Statistics (second edition). ESRI Press. ISBN-13: 978-
1589486089
Objectives
- Main Objectives of the course are: to understand the concepts of hazard assessment to learn various methods for vulnerability assessment to learn the formulation process of spatial data for risk assessment to generate risk maps using qualitative and quantitative methods
Outcomes
- Course Outcome of Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment (DHSM-5105)
References
- Chartres, N., Bero, L. A., & Norris, S. L. (2019). A review of methods used for hazard identification and risk assessment of environmental hazards. Environment International, 123, 231–239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.11.060
- Flax, L. K., Jackson, R. W., & Stein, D. N. (2002). Community vulnerability assessment tool methodology. Natural Hazards Review, 3(4), 163–176.
Objectives
- To provide the students with a deeper understanding of disaster management with the theories and methodologies that make up its practice.
- To emphasize knowledge grounded within the research.
Outcomes
- Assess concepts typically associated with scientific research and literature on disaster management.
- Analyze the scholarly works of social science researchers with respect to disaster management
- Evaluate the impacts of theory (abstract) on operations (reality)
- Synthesize the lessons to be learned from a large body of research and writing
References
- Etkin, D., 2015. Disaster Theory.
- Asgary A., 2005. Technological Disasters’ Cost/loss Data: Current Issues and Future Challenges. 2nd Toulouse–Montreal Conference: The Law, Economics and Management of Large-Scale Risks, September 30 to October 1, 2005, Montreal, Canada
- Twigg, J., 2015. Disaster Risk Reduction. Overseas Development Institute.
Objectives
- – To gain an understanding of the hydrological hazards of Bangladesh
– To understand the impacts of different hazards and their spatiality
– To learn the existing policy and their formulation background
Outcomes
- – Understand the basic concepts of hydrological hazards in the context of Bangladesh
– Will be able to assess vulnerabilities of different communities
– Understand people’s vulnerabilities and adaptation options
– Gain a holistic understanding of hydrological hazards
References
- 1. Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I., & Wisner, B. (2004). At risk: natural hazards,
people's vulnerability, and disasters. Routledge.
2. Gupta, S. K. (2011). Modern hydrology and sustainable water development. John
Wiley & Sons.
3. Hyndman, D., & Hyndman, D. (2016). Natural hazards and disasters. Cengage
Learning.
4. Okuyama, Y., & Sahin, S. (2009). Impact estimation of disasters: a global aggregate
for 1960 to 2007. The World Bank.
Objectives
- This course guides students through fundamental project management concepts and behavioral skills needed to successfully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Successful project managers skillfully manage their resources, schedules, risks, and scope to produce a desired outcome. In this course, students explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies and class exercises. A key and often overlooked challenge for project managers is the ability to manage without influence—to gain the support of stakeholders and access to resources not directly under their control. Special attention is given to critical success factors required to overcome resistance to change. We will review causes of project failure and how to mitigate risks through proper planning in the early phases of a new initiative.
Outcomes
- General outcomes
- – Understand project management design, development, and deployment
– Use project management tools, techniques, and skills
– Employ strategies to address the ubiquitous issue of resistance to change
– Align critical resources for effective project implementation
References
- Shirley, D. (2024). Project management for healthcare. CRC Press.
- Kerzner, H. (2024). Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John Wiley & Sons.
Objectives
- To understand the current disaster management and resilience research and practice fields
- To know disaster risk drivers, risk communication, and disaster risk reduction strategies
- To learn disaster resilience-building theory and practices
Outcomes
- Assess and analyze disaster risk, its components, driving factors, different disaster risk reduction approaches.
- Apply detailed knowledge of policy and approaches for disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness, and disaster recovery stage.
- Assess complexity and interaction and develop, monitor, and evaluate resilience in processes, systems, organizations, and communities at risk from known and emergent threats in a sustainable way.
References
- Disaster management: enabling resilience
- Vulnerability and resilience in natural disasters. a marketing and public policy perspective
- Disaster risk reduction and ‘built-in’ resilience: towards over- arching principles for construction practice
Objectives
- To develop understanding of Exposure, Vulnerability and thus Risk.
- To develop an understanding of modeling from risk stance, considering statistical computation
- To identify various sources of risk and hazard model available in practice.
Outcomes
- 1. Introduction to risk modelling: Definition, general concepts, methods and applications of
risk modelling, components of risk modelling, Scenario vs Probabilistic modelling; Monte
Carlo simulation in Catastrophe models
2. CAPRA (comprehensive Approach to probabilistic risk assessment): Methodology of
CAPRA, scope, and application of CAPRA
References
- 1. Risk Modelling for hazards and disasters by Gero Michel
2. CAPRA - Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic
3. Risk Assessment: International Initiative for Risk Management Effectiveness by ardona
et al., 2014