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The network’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. KCO’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.

A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area.

Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation

Earthquakes, drought and heat affect every part of Kurdistan. This community would set the methods behind the resilience programmes.

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Status
Proposed
What it offers
4
Courses
2
Country programmes
35
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subjectSafety

A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit. are written and reviewed by peers. A course plan with outcomes, modules and assessment, written before the lessons and reviewed before teaching starts. are A text awaiting review; it can change before it is used. until expert review.

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  • Contested subject This subject is contested. Every side is shown with its sources, and nothing here endorses a position.
  • Safety Safety guidance here is general. Your risk depends on who you are and where you are. Protected participation explains how members are protected. Protected participation

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Sources

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  1. Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb, Prsha Abubakr Othman (2021). Tackling energy poverty and climate change through sustainable power generation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library. DOI 10.25676/11124/180817
  2. Shireen Jawhar Mohammed, Sanger Muhammad Ahmed, Muzhda Qasim Qadr et al. (2025). Climate Change Anxiety Symptoms in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences. DOI 10.47310/jpms2025140104
  3. Kizilhan JI, Al-Ghurbani S, Uricher J et al. (2025). Exposure to climate-related stressors undermines mental health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: a cross-sectional study.. Front Public Health. DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1719584
  4. Ghazalleh Ziaii, Hossein Babazadeh, Niaz Ali Ebrahimipak et al. (2025). Corrigendum: Journal of Water and Climate Change , 16 (8), 2462–2481: Quantitative analysis of climate change impacts on the productivity of rainfed winter wheat: a case study of Kurdistan province, Iran, https://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2025.795. Journal of Water and Climate Change. DOI 10.2166/wcc.2025.286
  5. Fateme Aghamir, Saeid Soufizadeh, Ahmad Soheili (2021). Simulation of the effect of climate change on phenology and yield of dryland wheat in Kurdistan province. علوم محیطی. DOI 10.52547/envs.2021.1020

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Perspectives and disputes

Contested subjects show every side with sources. Nothing here endorses a position.

A map of the main positions, each with its own sources, is in preparation.

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01What it offers

  • 01

    Risk descriptions

    How hazards are described, in words and with sources.

  • 02

    Preparedness guidance

    Review of family and community guidance against official sources.

  • 03

    Crisis protocols

    Rules for verifying and sharing information in a crisis.

  • 04

    Adaptation

    Guidance on water and heat adaptation, with every side of contested questions.

02Who it is for

  • Seismologists
  • Climate and water specialists
  • Civil protection professionals
  • Researchers

03How it works

Proposal
the community awaits the governing body’s decision.
Join
members would take part by A narrower topic within a discipline. and declare interests.
Draft
members would draft methods and protocols.
Review
each output would be peer reviewed before use.

04What it always keeps

  • Independent of any party, state or funder
  • An interest of a person, such as money, family, an employer or a political role, that could make them decide differently from a fair person in the same place. are declared
  • Every output is reviewed and sourced
  • No predictions and no figures without sources

05Disciplines

  • A group of related disciplines within a faculty; it is an arrangement of subjects, not an institution. of Risk, Resilience and Humanitarian Action

    Disaster risk reduction

    Reducing harm before disaster strikes. Earthquakes such as Kermanshah in 2017 and Kahramanmaraş in 2023 hit Kurdish areas.

    1 course5 fields Open

  • Department of Risk, Resilience and Humanitarian Action

    Climate change adaptation

    Preparing for heat, drought and failing water, and the migration they can cause.

    1 course4 fields Open

  • Department of Civil Engineering

    Earthquake engineering

    Designing and retrofitting buildings, schools and hospitals to stay standing in earthquakes.

    0 courses4 fields A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides.

  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

    Geology and seismology

    Rocks, faults and earthquakes. The Zagros and Taurus ranges lie on active plate boundaries.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Risk, Resilience and Humanitarian Action

    Water security and governance

    Water security studies how shared rivers and aquifers are governed across states and users.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Kurdish Society, Land and Diaspora

    Land and environment of Kurdistan

    This field studies the mountains, rivers, lakes and forests of Kurdistan and the risks they face.

    4 courses4 fields Open

06Courses

A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

07Communities of practice

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/communities/drr-climate/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/communities/drr-climate/.

BibTeX
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	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Disaster {Risk} {Reduction} and {Climate} {Adaptation}},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/communities/drr-climate/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/communities/drr-climate/},
}

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08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Tackling energy poverty and climate change through sustainable power generation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb, Prsha Abubakr Othman · 2021 · Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library

    ReportDataCiteOpenAIRE

  2. Climate Change Anxiety Symptoms in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Shireen Jawhar Mohammed, Sanger Muhammad Ahmed, Muzhda Qasim Qadr et al. · 2025 · Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences

    ArticleCrossref

  3. Exposure to climate-related stressors undermines mental health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: a cross-sectional study.

    Kizilhan JI, Al-Ghurbani S, Uricher J et al. · 2025 · Front Public Health

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  4. Corrigendum: Journal of Water and Climate Change , 16 (8), 2462–2481: Quantitative analysis of climate change impacts on the productivity of rainfed winter wheat: a case study of Kurdistan province, Iran, https://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2025.795

    Ghazalleh Ziaii, Hossein Babazadeh, Niaz Ali Ebrahimipak et al. · 2025 · Journal of Water and Climate Change

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  5. Simulation of the effect of climate change on phenology and yield of dryland wheat in Kurdistan province

    Fateme Aghamir, Saeid Soufizadeh, Ahmad Soheili · 2021 · علوم محیطی

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  6. Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq

    David Romano · 2020 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  7. Quantitative analysis of climate change impacts on the productivity of rainfed winter wheat: a case study of Kurdistan province, Iran

    Ghazalleh Ziaii, Hossein Babazadeh, Niaz Ali Ebrahimipak et al. · 2025 · Journal of Water and Climate Change

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  8. CLIMATE CHANGE AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN THE KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ The Intersection of Environmental Crisis and Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Kurdistan Centre for International Law (KCIL)

    San Saravan · 2026 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCite

  9. Neanderthal and Modern Human Adaptations to Climate Change in Southwest Asia: Climate Reconstruction of Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 3 based on small mammal records from Shanidar Cave (Iraqi Kurdistan)

    Emily Tilby · 2022 · Apollo – University of Cambridge Repository

    ThesisDataCite

  10. The Role of Higher Education in Managing the Impacts of Climate Change, With a Focus on the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

    Serwan Baban · 2025 · ECE Official Conference Proceedings

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  11. Model-based Climate Change Impact Assessment on Water Resources of Kurdistan, Iraq

    Nahlah A Abbas, Saleh A Wasimi · 2016 · Environment and Water Resource Management / 837: Health Informatics / 838: Modelling and Simulation / 839: Power and Energy Systems

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  12. Coupling Tree-Ring Blue Intensity and Carbon Isotope (δ 13 C) Reveals Shifting Climate Change Drivers on Tree Growth in Kurdistan Forests, Northern Iraq

    Khalat Fadhil Mohammed, Philippe Claeys, Kamal Kolo · 2026 · Copernicus GmbH

    PreprintCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23.

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