Some important titles of the syllabus include:
- Sustainable land management
- Holistic approach in desert governance
- Managerial approaches in drylands
- Analysis of five capitals in integrated desert management
- Social Network Analysis in integrated desert management
- Policy-making network and organizational relations in desert management
- Micro- and Macro-level indices in desert management policy networks
- Stakeholder analysis
- Desert diplomacy, concepts and rules
- International organizations and agreements for combating desertification
- International conventions on biodiversity and climate change
- Local community's empowerment for participatory management of deserts
- Resilience, adaptation and vulnerability of humanistic-environmental systems