EV3606 - Disasters: Vulnerability, Mitigation and Planning

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Sch of Earth & Environmental Sciences

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 Outcomes

• assess a range of mitigation measures;
• assess the roles of all sectors of government and institutions in emergency management and planning responses;
• provide an understanding of community vulnerability and its measurement;
• understand community awareness and preparedness for hazards;
• understand the roles and limitations of public education;
• use social impact methodology to assess hazard impact.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments.

Prerequisites:	AT LEAST 12 CREDIT POINTS OF LEVEL 2 SUBJECTS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	EV5606

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Alison Cottrell, Assoc. Professor David King
Lecturers:	Dr Alison Cottrell, Assoc. Professor David King, Mrs Yetta Gurtner.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 36 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); team exercises and report (30%); assignments (30%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.