Crisis Leadership: Resolving Natural Disasters Impacts Through Community Lifelines

EQUIPPING LEADERS TO BUILD RESILIENT COMMUNITIES AGAINST NATURAL DISASTERS RISKS

As disasters caused by extreme weather become more frequent, intense, and prolonged, communities need to establish more robust systems for mitigating these impacts and addressing the disproportionate effects on vulnerable groups.

Are you ready to implement strategies for environmental resilience?

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Course Overview

This course will teach participants to evaluate future environmental change impacts using Community Lifelines Toolkit to formulate mitigation and adaptation strategies. Participants will learn to utilize Community Lifelines Toolkit, web-based tools, and environmental models to determine projected impacts on communities with heightened vulnerability. Participants will incorporate a whole community approach to addressing environmental impacts.

Target Audience

Course Core Capabilities

Emergency managers, urban planners, state, local, tribal, and territorial government (SLTT) leadership, first responders, community-based organizations, economic development organizations, public health officials, councils of government, public information officers

Planning
Community resilience
Operational coordination
Threat & hazard identification
Long-term vulnerability reduction
Risk and disaster resilience assessment

Certification

A certificate of completion will be given to those participants who pass the test with a score of 70% or higher. Students who do not achieve a score of 70% or higher will be allowed to retake the test an additional two times.

A certificate will be issued to participants who successfully complete this course.

Course Length

6 hours, recored training videos, self-pace

EI2 Global at Georgia Tech

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Atlanta, GA, 30308
Phone: 404-894-0730
Email: dkincaid6@gatech.edu

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