GE3606:03
Disasters: Vulnerability, Mitigation and Planning
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
26 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Staff: Dr D King, Dr A Cottrell, Dr L Anderson-Berry.
Disasters are a human construct, where a natural hazard interacts with a community, overwhelming emergency services and causing widespread loss. Planning for disasters is a multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary process that involves understanding, analysing, mapping and measuring communities, their infrastructure and their physical characteristics and location. This knowledge is necessary for preparing people to deal with hazards, to mitigate against disaster and to recover from hazards that impact communities.
Learning Objectives:
- provide an understanding of community vulnerability and its measurement;
- assess a range of mitigation measures;
- understand community awareness and preparedness for hazards;
- assess the roles of all sectors of government and institutions in emergency management and planning responses;
- understand the roles and limitations of public education;
- use social impact methodology to assess hazard impact.
Assessment by coursework (70%); final examination (30%).