Teaching about Risk and Resilience Courses
These course descriptions have been submitted by faculty from a range of disciplines as part of the 2014 workshop: Teaching about Risk and Resilience.
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Natural Hazards and Disasters
Corrie Neighbors, University of California-Riverside
Natural Hazards and Disasters applies the basic principles of science to the recognition and analysis of natural hazards and the mitigation of related disasters. Students learn about the scientific causes and ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Volcanism, Mass Wasting, Floods/Fluvial Processes, Wildfires, Coastal Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Environmental Science
Special Interest: GIS, Hazards, Data, models, or simulations
Environmental Science and Policy
Mary Anne Carletta, Georgetown College
This is an upper level college course for environmental science and sometimes political science majors or others who are interested. It consists largely of class discussions of material from an environmental policy ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Policy, Environmental Science
Special Interest: Hazards
Resources and Risks: Humans and the Physical Environment
This course draws upon the earth and environmental sciences to explore interactions between humans and the physical environment. Students use spatial and aspatial datasets (e.g., Google Earth, computer simulations, ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Natural Hazards, Environmental Science
Special Interest: Hazards, Sustainability
Introduction to Environmental Science
Kelly Bringhurst, Dixie State College of Utah
This course is an introduction to the field of environmental science, focusing on how an understanding of the natural world around us and the application of scientific method can help us address problems facing our ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Energy, Forest Resources, Soils and Agriculture, Sustainability, Natural Hazards, Policy, Environmental Science
Special Interest: Hazards, Process of Science, Sustainability
Water and Society
Adelle Monteblanco, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Water and Society" introduces students to sociological considerations of water, particularly access, distribution and risk management. The course reviews the central role of water in human society, with ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Sustainability, Environmental Science, Sociology
Special Interest: Sustainability
Natural Hazards Planning
Rebekah Paci-Green, Western Washington University
This interdisciplinary course emphasizes creation of safer human settlements through application of hazard mitigation strategies in community planning, site selection and layout, infrastructure design, and building ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Natural Hazards, Environmental Science
Special Interest: Hazards, Sustainability
Social Ecology
Pamela McMullin-Messier, Central Washington University
This is a sociology course but also serves as an interdisciplinary elective for environmental and policy studies; the course revolves around discussion and application of the concepts and theories of environmental ...
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Natural Hazards, Environmental Science, Sociology
Special Interest: Hazards, Sustainability, Global/National Issue
Economics of Hazards & Disasters
Lorraine Motola, Metropolitan College of New York
This course, Economics of Hazards and Disasters, provides a comprehensive overview of the economic aspects of hazards and disasters through a review of the concepts, analytical tools and policies to aid emergency ...
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Natural Hazards, Environmental Science
Special Interest: Hazards, Sustainability, Student Selected Problem
Decision Analysis
Jun Zhuang, SUNY at Buffalo
This course provides an overview of modeling techniques and methods used in decision analysis, including multiattribute utility models, decision trees, and Bayesian models. Psychological components of decision ...
Environmetal Hydrogeology
Tej Gautam, Marietta College
This is a lecture course with a lab component. It is an interdisciplinary in nature and involves field visits and report writing.