| Code | OSMOSML11101 |
| Title | Hazards, disasters and human experience |
| Module | OSMOSML111 - Hazards, disasters and human experience |
| Department | OSM - Organization & Strategy Management |
| Duration | 21 h |
| ECTS credits | 2 / 2 (erasmus) |
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| Description | This course examines the complex and coupled relationship between human development & expérience (population growth, urbanization) and environmental hazards by exploring a range of topics, such as: What do hazard, risk, vulnerability, and disaster mean, and how are these terms measured? What do hazards have to do with human values? How is exposure to environmental hazards different in developing and industrialized countries? And what responsibility does the government have to protect individuals from risk? Students will utilize quantitative and qualitative methods - including geospatial technologies - to gain insight into these questions - where and why hazards occur - and the subsequent impacts disaster events have on the social world (such as mortality, displacement, property damage, or other losses). Students will reflect on how society evaluates and confronts the dangers posed by natural hazards, and how political, economic, and/or cultural settings can serve to attenuate or exacerbate human vulnerability before, during, or after a disaster occurs. |
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| Prerequisites | None |
| Sustainable development | In order to implement the objectives of France's "Green Plan of Higher Education Institutions", each class considers the issues and stakes of Sustainable Development related to the subject matter being taught |
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| Method | Lectures Readings Discussion |
| Assessment |
Continuous assessment (50 %) Written assignment (50 %) |
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| Advised bibliography | Flannery, T. (2005) ; The Weather Makers. NY, NY: Grove Press, 368 pp. |