Good Health And Well-Being
Floods
Flooding is worsening with climate change and urban growth. Learn what causes floods, their impacts, and how to build resilience.
Course introduction
Floods are among the most common and devastating natural disasters worldwide. As climate patterns shift and urbanization expands, communities face increasing risks from both sudden and long-term flooding events. What causes floods? How do they relate to the water cycle and climate change? And what can we do to better prepare for, prevent, and recover from them?
In this course, you’ll dive into the science behind flooding - from its causes and impacts to the solutions to stay resilient. You’ll explore real-world case studies, examine both structural and sustainable prevention strategies, and uncover the growing role of climate change in intensifying floods.
By understanding how floods work and how we respond to them, you’ll be empowered to think critically about global risk management, urban planning, and environmental sustainability.
What you will learn
Curriculum
5 modules · 15 lessons · 1 assessment · about 26 min total
Understanding the natural causes of flooding is crucial towards realizing both the impacts of flooding on the environment, as well as the impact of climate change towards the water cycle.
Flooding is worsening with climate change and urban growth. Learn what causes floods, their impacts, and how to build resilience.
Flood prevention and management are essential to protect communities, ecosystems, and economies from the devastating impacts of flooding. Effective strategies encompass structural measures, non-structural approaches, and sustainable practices that work together to mitigate flood risks. This lesson explores these strategies, highlighting how they contribute to comprehensive flood risk management.
The UN SDGs are 17 global goals for a fairer, sustainable world by 2030.
Learn moreBuilding Resilience To Climate Disasters
This course on flooding directly addresses SDG 13, Climate Action, by exploring how climate change intensifies flood events globally. You will investigate the critical link between a warming world and disrupted water cycles, understanding how these changes lead to more frequent and severe floods. The learning empowers you to analyze strategies for building resilience against these climate-related hazards, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change impacts.
Reviews
This course really opened my eyes to the complexities of flood risk and what we can do about it.
I gained a much deeper understanding of how climate change is intensifying flood events globally. The section on community resilience strategies was particularly insightful and gave me actionable ideas for my own area.
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About 26 min of lessons, 15 lessons in total, plus a short assessment at the end. There is no deadline and no fixed schedule: your progress saves automatically as you finish each lesson, so you can stop halfway through a module and continue later on any device. Access does not expire.
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