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: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Mass Wasting, Wildfires, Coastal Hazards, Environmental Science, Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Volcanism, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology
Special Interest: GIS, Hazards, Data, models, or simulations
Geologic Catastrophes
Carla Whittington, Highline Community College
This is an introductory-level lecture and activity based course focused on geologic hazards in the Pacific Northwest: earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, and landslides. Students are required to access the ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Volcanism, Coastal Hazards:Tsunami, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Environmental Science, Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology
Special Interest: Hazards, Local Issue