The Disaster Risk and Resilience in the Americas Program of the Extreme Events Institute at Florida International University (FIU-EEI-DRRA) and the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, (USAID/ BHA) decisively support the launch of the Master’s program on Territorial Management of Disaster Risk (MGTRD) of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile in September 2023. This postgraduate program is built on previous academic experiences such as the Postgraduate Diploma in Disaster Risk Management from the University of Chile, and the online Postgraduate Certificate in Planning for Local Development, Territorial Planning and Risk Management coordinated by FIU-EEI-DRRA.
The master’s program in Territorial Disaster Risk Management at the University of Chile responds to a need in Chile and Latin America to face multiple hazards -natural, social, biological and technological- that have caused and have the potential to continue to unleash disasters. The master has a prospective approach to disaster risk acknowledging its multiple causes and territorial scales, as well as its systemic nature and its concomitant and concatenated manifestations. The Program recognizes the immense challenge to address disaster risk management from territory planning and land use, as agents of transformation and risk reduction.
