UFOR 396B Natural Hazards & Disasters
UFOR 396B. Natural Hazards and Disasters
This course will explore natural hazards and disasters. Some of the geophysical processes such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, volcanoes, drought, and windstorms will be examined in addition to man-made disasters and other hazards driven b biological processes. The course will also evaluate human impacts of disaster by type. Case studies of natural hazards and disasters will be drawn from the United States as well as global rends and patterns in disaster occurrence. Finally, the course will introduce mitigation and management techniques of disaster as well as the use of earth observations (EO) and space-based technologies as decision support tool in disaster preparedness and disaster risk management.