Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience

The United Nations defines a disaster as a disruption of social and community function involving so many losses and destructive impacts that affected communities and regions are unable to cope using their own resources. Global efforts to reduce the impacts of disasters over the last decade have failed to keep up with growing exposure of people and assets to natural and other hazards, which is generating new risks and a steady rise in disaster-related losses. The professional masters program is taught by a multi-disciplinary team drawn from the Disaster Risk and Resilience Group in the University of Canterbury s Department of Geological Sciences, from Lincoln University s Department of Environmental Management and from GNS science. This partnership increases the breadth of teaching expertise, student research projects and industry practice connections.