Overview
Offerings
Contacts
Chief Examiner(s)
Unit Coordinator(s)
Learning outcomes
Gain awareness of the range of environmental processes that are recognised as hazards to human lives, livelihoods and settlements
Understand the nature and origin of hazardous environmental processes, including concepts of event magnitude and frequency of occurrence
Appreciate regional variations in the characteristics of environmental and socio-economic processes that produce catastrophes
Recognize the social and demographic factors through which an environmental process becomes a human disaster
Appreciate the range of factors than may influence the vulnerability of particular regions or communities to hazardous environmental processes
Be able to summarise and discuss some of the strategies used to minimise the risk of environmental disaster and to respond to disasters that occur.
Assessment summary
Within semester assessment: 100%
Workload requirements
Availability in areas of study
Human geography