Capacity building of education professionals and others interested in the disasters risk prevention on the municipalities of Northern coast of Sao Paulo - Caraguatatuba, Ilhabela, Sao Sebastiao and Ubatuba. The course is based on action research and citizen science, which encourages the co-knowledge production, research and local monitoring with the involvement of the community and of public institutions. This module presented the tools of social cartography, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

The course offered different interdisciplinary tools for territorial research projects using the follow methods: multicriteria analysis, mediated modeling and participatory mapping; the expert choice, open source software and software open for mapping. Each methodological tool will be contextualized in its respective theoretical approach - Post-normal Science, Systemic Thinking, Participatory mapping).