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GEOG339 - Disaster Management and Community Resilience

Description

Explores hazard events and the factors and conditions that lead to disasters. Covers such events as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts and examines their human and natural dimensions.Emphasis on understanding vulnerability and risk assessment, sustainable hazards mitigation and disaster management approaches to enhancing community resilience.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Formerly

part of GEOG 472

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of GEOG 339, GEOG 391 (if taken in the same topic), GEOG 472.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of:
    • GEOG103 - Introduction to Physical Geography (1.5)
    • GEOG211 - Political and Economic Geography (1.5)
    • GEOG218 - Social and Cultural Geography (1.5)

Course offered by

Department of Geography

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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