Archive for month: December, 2023

The 2023 Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program included a detailed group work exercise on so-called natural hazards in Bhutan. The students brainstormed the hazards, the key five being Glacial Lake Output Floods (GLOF), Landslides & Floods, Wildfires/Forest Fires, Earthquakes, and Drought.  The hazards were brainstormed and ranked using the Ten Seed Technique (TST); and then had appropriate risk reduction initiatives developed for them.  All this material was covered in a 92 page Research Project (RP) which is made available for PDRM participants/students.

For the forthcoming 2025 online accredited PDRM, which runs from early March to mid June 2025, we will look more closely at these Himalayan hazards in Topic TC02 (along with Australian bushfires and a range of hazards across the Southwest Pacific). We will then take a risk management approach to this analysis, this being covered in more detail in Topics TC06 and TC07.  See the link below to this online 2025 PDRM program.