8 hours
Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience
Cross-sectoral
Environment
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Hindi
Indonesian
Spanish
Delivery Modality
MOOC
Theme
Risk-Informed Planning
Ecosystem-based Solutions
Integrating DRR/CCA
Resilient Recovery & Reconstruction
Audience
Civil Society & Community-Based Organizations
Field Level Professionals
Government
Local Community
NDMO/Civil Protection
Private Sector
Sectoral Ministries
UN Staff
Agencies
UNEP
Certification
Yes
Last Updated
Jan-21
This 7-unit massive open online course (MOOC) provides an overview of nature's many solutions for reducing the impacts from disasters and climate impacts. This may include protecting forests on steep slopes, maintaining sand dunes along coastlines, wetlands to buffer excess rainwater. These so-called ‘Nature- based solutions’ (NbS) are an important piece in the puzzle to building the resilience of households and communities to an ever-increasing number of disaster events around the world.
Learning Objectives:
- Guidance on how to apply Nature-based Solutions in enhancing resilience to disasters and climate change, whether you are a youth leader, practitioner, policy maker, engineer or business owner
- Gain knowledge about how human activities are interlinked with ecological systems and main tools and approaches for applying Nature-based Solutions to reducing disaster and climate risks
- Learn how policy makers are including nature as a solution in policy processes for reducing disaster and climate risks. Also how policies support to up-scale Nature-based Solutions for disaster risk reduction