The Doctoral Programme in Territory, Risk and Public Policies has a 4-year duration (8 semesters), totalling 240 ECTS). The PhD thesis project defense occurs at the end of the first academic year. The Programme is lectured in Portuguese.

1^st year, 1^st semester
Conference cycle (6 ECTS)
Risk mitigation strategies (8 ECTS)
Risk factors and land management (8 ECTS)
Methods and techniques for risk assessment and management (8 ECTS)

1^st year, 2^nd semester
Citizenship and risk governance (8 ECTS)
Land planning and multiscale risk analysis (8 ECTS)
Public policies and risk management instruments (8 ECTS)
Research seminar (6 ECTS)

2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th years
Thesis (180 ECTS)