Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Disaster and Climate Change Risk Analysis by Google, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Training in Risk Management and Safe Infrastructure. Strengthen your technical skills and make decisions while integrating natural disaster risk analysis and climate change resilience into the design of infrastructure projects.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בניתוח סיכונים של אסונות ושינויי אקלים של Google

Professional Certificate

Advanced

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Identifying the key elements of natural disaster risk.
  • The importance of integrating risk analysis into the life cycle of infrastructure projects.
  • Performing qualitative and quantitative assessments to make informed decisions.
  • Understanding when to run each type of risk assessment.
  • Assessing the technical and economic viability of projects.
  • Making informed recommendations for infrastructure design, construction, operation and governance.

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Infrastructure officials
  • Project management professionals
  • Team members involved in risk analysis
  • Infrastructure project managers
  • Engineering professionals
  • Risk analysis consultants
  • Climate change professionals
  • Infrastructure project operations managers
  • Government officials involved in infrastructure planning
  • Researchers in the field of risks and disasters

Internship – 3-lesson course series

The special training program is intended for officials, professionals, and team members involved in the formulation, implementation, or supervision of infrastructure projects, who are interested in integrating disaster risk analysis and climate change adaptation into their projects.

What will the students learn?

  • Identifying the key elements of natural disaster risk.
  • The importance of integrating risk analysis into the life cycle of infrastructure projects.
  • Performing qualitative and quantitative assessments to make informed decisions.
  • Understanding when to run each type of risk assessment.
  • Assessing the technical and economic viability of projects.
  • Making informed recommendations for infrastructure design, construction, operation and governance.

It is recommended to take the courses in the suggested order.

Hands-on Learning Project

During the special program, participants will be able to apply their knowledge in analyzing and researching various aspects of risk in infrastructure, through diverse practical cases.

As part of this, they will have access to trial versions of various software developed by iPresas. These programs only run on Windows-based computers.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Disaster Risk in Infrastructure Projects

Course 1 – 6 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • The importance of disaster risk analysis and climate change in infrastructure projects.
  • Disaster risk components and the differences between different types of risk.
  • The different concepts or levels of detail for risk analysis.

Skills you will gain:

  • Risk analysis
  • Infrastructure
  • Disaster risk
  • projects
  • Climate change

Course 2 – 14 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Key aspects of qualitative and quantitative analysis of natural disaster risks in infrastructure projects.
  • Methodologies and tools for qualitative and quantitative analysis of natural disaster risks.
  • Incorporating the impact of climate change into disaster risk analysis for future scenarios.

Skills you will gain:

  • Risk analysis
  • Infrastructure
  • Disaster risk
  • Climate change
  • sturdiness

Course 3 – 6 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Terms of technical and economic feasibility of infrastructure projects.
  • Quantitative indicators for investment ranking and their calculation.
  • Key components of risk governance and its steps towards an informed public investment system.

Skills you will gain:

  • Decision Making
  • Disaster risk
  • Risk government
  • Possibility of projects
  • Infrastructure projects

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