Nature offers many solutions to reduce the impacts of disasters and climate change, such as protecting forests on steep slopes, maintaining sand dunes along coastline and wetlands to buffer excess rainwater.
In this free-of-charge* Massive Open Online Course, find out how people around the world are building resilience to disasters and climate change impacts through Nature-based Solutions.
This course will help you understand how to apply these Nature-based Solutions that restore or protect natural or modified ecosystems and biodiversity and allow for their sustainable management.
This course is open to everyone, whether you have an environmental background or not and you can choose from any of your preferred languages including English, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, and Bahasa.
Register and more details: https://pedrr.org/MOOC
- Expected Launch Date:
January, 2021
- Cost:
*FREE: The course is free. Fees for obtaining the certificate may apply.
- Location:
Online
- Course Length:
3-6 hours depending on your level of interest
- Course Contents:
Module 1
Unit 1: Why is this topic relevant for me?
Unit 2: What are Nature-based Solutions?
Unit 3: Nature-based Solutions applied to pressing challenges: urbanization, coastal development and drylands expansion
Module 2
Unit 4: Including communities, youth and indigenous people in Nature-based Solutions
Unit 5: From policy to practice
Unit 6: The business case for Nature-based Solutions
