SDC-52306 Institutions, Recovery and Resilience
Code last year: (RDS-52306)
Course
Credits 6.00
| Teaching method | Contact hours |
| One day excursion | 8 |
| Lectures | 28 |
| Practical intensively supervised | 5 |
| Project learning | 17 |
| Course coordinator(s) | dr. ir. G van der Haar |
| Lecturer(s) | dr. ir. G van der Haar |
| ir. EPM Heijmans | |
| MSc MF van Staveren | |
| ir. HK van Dijkhorst | |
| dr. JF Warner | |
| dr. ir. MJ Voors | |
| PC Ferner | |
| dr. F Ludwig | |
| and others | |
| Examiner(s) | dr. ir. G van der Haar |
Language of instruction:
English
Assumed knowledge on:
SDC-35306 Natural Hazards and Disasters (also part of minor).
Continuation courses:
SDC-34306 Conflict, Development and Disaster; SDC-34806 Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction; SDC-31306 Property Rights, Natural Resources and Conflict.
Contents:
This course addresses socio-institutional aspects of disaster response and recovery. The course is structured around two main questions: 1) what role do formal and informal institutions play in shaping societies' resilience to disasters? and 2) how can institution-building contribute to enhancing societies' resilience? The course introduces students to the kinds of institutions that play a role in how societies deal with disasters - social, economic and political, and formal as well as informal. It offers students tools to analyse how societies are impacted by crises, the role institutions and governance play in the response to crises and how institutional change takes shape in recovery processes. In the course, disasters are understood in a broad sense, including natural hazards as well as conflict and other crisis. The interaction between natural and man-made disasters receives specific attention, given that natural hazards often have particularly devastating impacts on regions affected by violent conflict, state fragility or severe social exclusion.
Learning outcomes:
After successful completion of this course students are expected to be able to:
- understand and analyse the role of formal and informal institutions in disaster response and recovery;
- understand and analyse the impact of disasters on formal and informal institutions in society;
- critically reflect on the concept of societal resilience to crises;
- recognize how social and technical dimensions of recovery and resilience interact;
- analyse, and develop proposals for, institution-building with a view to enhancing societal resilience to crises.
Activities:
- classroom lectures with active participation of students;
- supervised tutorials;
- one-day practical assignment.
Examination:
- written exam;
- report on assignment.
Literature:
Will be made available at start of course, through MyPortal.
| Minor | Period | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory for: | WUDIR | BSc Minor Disaster and Recovery | 6MO |