Spring 2025
SES 5459
Instructors
Schedule
January 27 - April 28
Wednesday, 12:00pm - 2:45pm
Building Resilient Communities
Description
This seminar course will examine resilience of communities to natural and man-made disasters, climate change and other vulnerabilities. It will do so with an objective of finding ways to create resilience in communities that are apparently ‘weak’. Many communities in the world today are vulnerable to environmental and man-made threats. In many cases there is not sufficient help from governments and organizations to create resilience in such communities. In such instances the people have to rely on their own strengths and abilities. The course will emphasize the ability of the people to develop resilience with the skills and knowledge they possess with some support from technical inputs. The key being self-sufficiency.
Department
Urban Planning & Design
School
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Course Level
Graduate
Interest Area
Design & Architecture
Credits
4
Cross Registration
Not Available