Is your city ready for the future?

Cities worldwide will accommodate an additional 2 billion people by 2050, with 95% of this growth occurring in the Global South. A great part of this expansion is occurring in cities already exposed to multiple hazards - such as earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, and landslides - often with little consideration for the city’s specific hazard profile or geographical characteristics.

As we look towards the future, we need alternative ways of conceiving and managing space and time in our cities and territories, and lasting alliances that stem from local level to address existing inequalities and vulnerabilities.

The Tomorrow’s Cities approach introduced in this course can play an important role in achieving this. 

Bringing global science to the ground, involving politicians, planners, scientists and local communities to share their future visions and analyze how these visions translate in terms of disaster risks using real life scenarios, the methodology can help your city, and most importantly, your citizens, to better understand and reflect on how today’s decisions might shape the risks and vulnerabilities of tomorrow.

Why take this course?

*The online course is also available in French and Spanish.
Follow the corresponding link if you prefer to enroll in the course in one of these languages.