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The course provides an understanding of hazards, risk and resilience. It also aims to develop some of the skills necessary for disaster management (e.g. the ability to collaborate, direct a project with limited supervision, use simulations). Topics dealt with include the character of specific hazard types (e.g. floods, drought, severe storms, avalanches, mass movement, wildfires, coastal erosion and tsunamis); responses to hazards from the local to the global scale; and the social and community dimensions of hazards, risk and resilience. Examples will be drawn from New Zealand and overseas.
The aim of the course is to investigate the nature and management of environmental hazards. In 2017, the focus will be on rapid and ‘short-lived’ environmental hazards which arise from the interaction of human populations with ‘extreme’ events, primarily hazards of hydrological, geomorphological and climatological origin. Human aspects of hazards, risks and disaster management are investigated during the second part of the course.
By the end of the course you should be able to:Understand the physical dimensions of and human responses to a number of environmental hazards; Use GIS and remote sensing tools to analyse environmental hazards;Analyse the characteristics and controls of selected extreme environmental hazards;Understand the social and community dimensions of a selection of environmental hazards and disasters.
30 points of 200 level geography, orin special cases with approval of the Head of Department.
Kerryn Hawke
David Conradson and Graeme Wynn
Library portalLearn - for all online course materials Sample Course Outline – enrolled students must use LEARN for the latest version VIDEO: See Constance Chua talk about her Msc Research with Christopher Gomez in Tokyo. She is studying the vulnerability of Sumida-ku to floods (river, tsunami and earthquake related) VIDEO: Dr Christopher Gomez explains flooding along the Meguro River VIDEO: Dr Deirdre Hart explains why the coast is so important for New Zealand and how a degree in physical geography will prepare you for a job in this area.
Domestic fee $1,635.00
International fee $7,050.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Earth and Environment .