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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.
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.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
30 points of 200 level geography, orin special cases with approval of the Head of Department.
Matthew Wilson
David Conradson and Seb Pitman
Library portalVIDEO: 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 $1,668.00
International fee $7,575.00
* 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 .