Risk, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Coordinator of the Curriculum

Prof. Luca Ferraris (DIBRIS, Università di Genova & CIMA Foundation)

Research Lines

The research lines can be broadly classified in the following areas:

• International cooperation for risk informed civil protection and sustainable development 

• Participatory approaches for risk governance and sustainable development

• Capacity development for civil protection 

• Governance, risk management and legal responsibility 

• Climate change mitigation and greenhouse gases reductions

• Decarbonisation of energy supply and zero-carbon communities

• Carbon footprint of products and organizations 

• Climate related water, food, energy security

• Climate displacement and migrations

• Large-scale climate scenarios, adaptation and behavioral change

• Climate and anthropic impact on marine bio-ecosystem

• Wildfire Risk Management and Forest Conservation

• End-to-end Early Warning Systems

• Risk perception and crisis communication

• Climate- and health-related risks

• Environmental and rural archaeology and history for the management of environmental risk

• Abandonment and environmental risk as historical processes

Partners

This curriculum is in partnership with the CIMA Research Foundation.