HAZM403-07S2 (C) Semester Two 2007

Hazard and Disaster Investigation

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2007
End Date: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 July 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 October 2007

Description

Investigation, solution and reporting of hazard and disaster management situations.

Supervised group projects that provide opportunities for students to become involved with real-life hazard management situations; obtain information; analyse problems and synthesise solutions; integrate scientific, societal, legal, institutional, environmental and political considerations; and consult and communicate outcomes. Hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, disaster management planning and recovery from disaster. Seminars on aspects of hazard and disaster management.

The course utilises knowledge gained from completing HAZM401 on the nature of hazards and disasters. The investigation, synthesis and reporting in HAZM403 require application of the material in HAZM401 to real-life situations, and further require the student to seek, acquire, assimilate and use additional material from a variety of sources. Students are required to complete the projects both as individuals and also as groups, to gain experience of the benefits and difficulties of working in a team situation.
Staff will be available for appropriate advice and mentoring throughout the course; however the major benefit from the course is that students learn how to learn, by discovering that they have the ability to think through a novel situation and devise ways of solving problems on which they have not been instructed.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students successfully completing this course will:
  • be experienced and confident in carrying out hazard and vulnerability assessments,
  • know how to communicate with both experts and lay persons in hazard and disaster situations,
  • know how to approach novel problems of hazard and disaster management,
  • know how to assess information needs, and access and assess information from a range of sources world-wide,
  • have experience in reporting hazard and disaster management situations and solutions.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Programme Director, Department of Geological Sciences

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Tim Davies

Guest Lecturer

To be announced

Other contributing staff:- to be announced

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Report 1 24 Aug 2007 40% Outline of individual approach to project (5 weeks)
Report 2 15 Oct 2007 60% Group report (6 weeks)


Assessment of each project is by a written report and a presentation designed for scientific, local government or lay (community) audiences and the media.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Mileti, Dennis S; Disasters by design : a reassessment of natural hazards in the United States ; Joseph Henry Press, 1999.

Texts are to be announced.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $488.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Geological Sciences .

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