The MSc environmental hazards and risks management program provides skills in risk management, and more particularly in risk modeling, to better predict and manage environmental hazards and risks.
BACKGROUND
In the southeast region of France the Mediterranean environment combines high population densities, rapid land cover change and extreme climatic events in an IPCC global climate change hotspot. The region is subject to devastating floods and forest fires as well as other ecological hazards. Proximity to the Alps and sea further expose the population to geohazards such as mass movements, earthquakes and coastal flooding. Few areas in the world concentrate as many environmental hazards and risks as southeast France, so it is an ideal place to learn about risk management.
In the Nice Côte d’Azur area, a multitude of field sites can be investigated to discover monitoring and mitigation strategies that are applicable throughout the world. In addition, there is a wide range of digital data available such as high resolution aerial and satellite imagery, Digital Elevation Models, and raster and vector GIS databases describing land cover, building units, vegetation and stream networks. The context is therefore propitious to modeling hazards and risks both spatially and temporally using GIS and remote sensing.
The program
The MSc Environmental hazards and risks management programcombines recent research with GIS and remote sensing technologies to train a generation of thinkers capable of anticipating and mitigating a wide range of natural hazards in a multi-disciplinary approach. On completion of the degree, participants will have a comprehensive understandingof risk managementcomponents such as: planning, mitigation, monitoring, scenario modeling and warning systems.
Key information summary
Please note that the total amount of the tuition fees indicated at the time of entry into the MSc is valid for one academic year and will be carried over to the following year in case of further study and/or repetition of a year (Deliberation n° 2021-27 of the “Conseil Académique” (Academic Council) of October 28, 2021)).
On the weekend of 22-24 September 2022, MSc Risks students from both years went together on a hiking trip to the Vallée des Merveilles in Tende, South-East France.
One of our M2 students, Alejandra Verde Medina, has been invited to attend the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom this November.
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