EV5606 - Disasters, Communities and Planning
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2013 |
| 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-disciplinary process that involves understanding, analysing, mapping and measuring communities, their infrastructure and their physical characteristics and location. The 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 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.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | GE3606 and GE5606 and EV3606 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 29-Aug-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Alison Cottrell |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Alison Cottrell, Assoc. Professor David King, Mrs Yetta Gurtner. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); team exercises and report (30%); assignments (30%). |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 29-Aug-2013 | |
| Face to face teaching (TBA) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Alison Cottrell |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Alison Cottrell, Assoc. Professor David King, Mrs Yetta Gurtner. |
| Contact hours: |
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| 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.