Water Hazards, Risks and Climate
Climate change and related exceptional weather conditions are here to stay. Whether it concerns droughts, floods or any of the other climate extremes, the world urgently needs to adapt to ‘the new normal’.
Study areas
- Coastal engineering
- Urban water management
- Flood and drought
- Hydrology and water resources
- Hydraulic engineering
- Surface and groundwater hydrology
- Water law, policy and politics
- River basin development
What will I learn?
The track comprises three main components: describing and quantifying spatiotemporal climate risks; developing fit-for-purpose adaptation pathways and associated measures, and defining appropriate approaches in governance, engineering and information. Depending on your interest, you might focus on cities, river basins, coastal or dryland areas, all of which come with their own climate challenges. Depending which profile, you choose, amongst a wide range of other topics, you will learn about water-sensitive cities and sustainable urban drainage; climate adaptation politics, water conflicts and financing; drought and flood management; artificial intelligence and decisions support systems or about sea level rise and coastal adaptation in rapidly urbanizing deltas.
Introduction to the track
Climate change dominates the headlines. To adapt, you need to understand the scale and the characteristics of the regions and people affected. Join us in this important task.
Track set-up
Helped by your coach, you choose a disciplinary profile, allowing you to focus on a specific aspect of the track or to mix and match (also across tracks), to give you a broader view of the topic.
Is it right for me?
Whether your dream is to become a chief resilience officer, an adaptation expert in a water agency or consultancy, an expert on nature-based solutions, a policy advisor, a risk modeller or a designer of participatory adaptation approaches, this track will give you a head start.
Interested?
This is one of four thematic tracks you can pair with a disciplinary profile in the MSc Programme in Water and Sustainable Development. Want to know more about this programme and how you can shape it to your interests?