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Master's degree

Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience

MDRR
03 October 2023

UC's Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience (MDRR) is a professional degree that provides an introduction to this rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. Learn more about studying an MDRR through our Te Kaupeka Pūtaiao | Faculty of Science.

START

Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience

Degree Structure - Start In
Semester 1 (February)

POINTS

180

DURATION

Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience

Degree Structure - Duration
1 year full-time, up to 3 years part-time

Overview


Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience

Introduction

The United Nations defines a disaster as a disruption of social and community function, involving so many losses and destructive impacts that affected communities and regions are unable to cope using their own resources. Global efforts to reduce the impacts of disasters over the last decade have failed to keep up with growing exposure of people and assets to natural and other hazards, which is generating new risks and a steady rise in disaster-related losses. To reverse this trend, UN member nations ratified the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015.

The Sendai Framework calls for a broader, more people-centred, preventative approach to disaster risk reduction, in which communities, government and private sectors, civil society organisations, academia, and research institutions work together to build resilience and develop collaborative disaster risk reduction practices.

This Professional Master’s degree provides an introduction to this rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field.

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