Explore global emergency management with Massey University
This four-week course will introduce you to emergency management to help you better prepare for, manage, and recover from emergencies.
Throughout the course, you will be provided with risk and emergency management examples from around the world to help you become familiar with the fundamental concepts.
You’ll also learn from internationally recognised emergency management experts associated with Massey University. Some of the experts you will meet have managed emergencies such as the Canterbury earthquake of 2011.
Unpack organisational and community resilience
Resilience is a key component of emergency management. Within this course, you will explore factors that impact community and organisational resilience and the best ways to build resilience.
This knowledge will also help you better understand risks and how you can reduce risk through planning.
Delve into risk response
With the knowledge of planning for risks, you’ll explore risk response management and how you can ensure both organisational and community readiness.
Understanding the importance of collaboration and coordination, you’ll learn how to best support communities with risk reduction and disaster response. You’ll also discover the emergency response frameworks you can use in your context.
Explore emergency and disaster recovery
On the final week of the course, you’ll investigate recovery management methods from both emergencies and disasters.
You’ll delve further into readiness for recovery and the role of insurance as you investigate different case studies to see these concepts in practice.
By the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge of emergency management and how you can best prepare communities and the environment for emergency response.
This course is designed for anyone interested in preparing for and managing the risks associated with disasters.
Anyone who is concerned about disasters, lives on a fault line, a bushland setting, or is involved in local governments or emergency services will also benefit from this course.
