This course provides an understanding of the natural hazards and disasters brought naturally and man-made and as well as the basic understanding of the community-based disaster risk and reduction framework and methodology. This will also provide students with a basic multi-disciplinary understanding of core issues and processes, and their interactions with development and poverty and poverty reduction. Students will be best equipped to respond to, indeed anticipate, the rapidly changing science and environmental and social/political/economic contexts of climate change by education in integrative core processes.