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Specialization certificate for the assessment and management of geological and climate related risk (CERGC) University of Geneva, Switzerland
From: Costanza BONADONNA <Costanza.Bonadonna@xxxxxxxx>
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Specialization certificate for the assessment and management of geological and climate related risk (CERGC) University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Since 1987, the University of Geneva has held an international training course on geologic risk assessment and management for graduate students and practitioners under a program called CERGC: specialization certificate for the assessment and management of geological and climate related risk. The CERGC is an intensive 9-week long program integrating the physical and social sciences and vulnerability and economics into risk assessment. Completion of the Certificate requires a Thesis/Memoir to be conducted in a candidateâs home country or in Geneva in collaboration with various governmental and non-governmental agencies (e.g., ISDR, UNOSAT, ITC), due within 2-years of completion of the main course work. Target modules include: risk management, volcanic risk, seismic risk, terrain instabilities and hydro-meteorological risk.
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The CERGC offers a 1-week field exercise on the island of Vulcano, Italy, to study risk management in the context of volcanic hazards. The island of Vulcano, part of the Aeolian Island arc north of Sicily, experienced its last eruption in 1888-90, but more recently volcanic unrest occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Four modules are included in the project at Vulcano: physical volcanology; vulnerabilityâ physical, functional, systemic, territorial and social; economics; and risk assessment and management. The training is also strongly aligned with the Italian National Civil Protection Agency (CPA) and has traditionally included a 1-day trip to Stromboli to evaluate the interaction between physical science and emergency management on Stromboli.
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CERGC candidates come to Geneva from all over the world to take advantage of faculty expertise and field settings offered in Switzerland, Italy and France and to have access to major international natural disaster governmental and non-governmental organizations housed in Geneva. To date, some 290 participants from 70 different countries have been trained in the CERGC. The teaching faculty comprises some 30 international experts from: Swiss National Emergency Operations Centre; Swiss Humanitarian Aid; INGV, Italy; World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva; UN/ISDR, Geneva; UNOSAT, Geneva; University of Pisa (Dept of Earth Sciences), Italy; University of South Florida (Dept of Geology), USA; East Tennessee State University (Dept of Geosciences), USA; and UNU-ITC School for Disaster Geo-information Management, Netherlands.
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Next CERGC will take place between April 18 and June 18, 2011. Deadlines for application are September 30, 2010 (for participants needing a visa) and February 14, 2011 (for participants not needing a visa). All material is presented in English, so CERGC candidates are required to understand written and spoken English and write and speak English. Learn more about the CERGC by going to: http://www.unige.ch/hazards. For registration and information, contact:
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Corine FRISCHKNECHT
University of Geneva
Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Unit of Geologic Risk
13, rue des MaraÃchers
CH â 1205 Geneva
Tel : +41 22 379 66 02
Fax : + 41 22 379 36 01
Email : cerg@xxxxxxxx
University of Geneva
Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Unit of Geologic Risk
13, rue des MaraÃchers
CH â 1205 Geneva
Tel : +41 22 379 66 02
Fax : + 41 22 379 36 01
Email : cerg@xxxxxxxx
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Alternatively, you may contact the CERG Director:
Professor Costanza Bonadonna
Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement
Università de GenÃve 13, rue des MaraÃchers
CH-1205 GenÃve
email: Costanza.Bonadonna@xxxxxxxx
Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement
Università de GenÃve 13, rue des MaraÃchers
CH-1205 GenÃve
email: Costanza.Bonadonna@xxxxxxxx
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