CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH|SCHOLARSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE|PURPOSE|MEANING AND PROCESSES OF EDUC

Module Overview

This module will explore key issues in contemporary education for health professionals, focusing on the impact of the socio-historical...

Contemporary Issues in Health Professions Education (MDSC0009)

LLM Specialisation: Banking and Financial Regulation (LAWS0171)

Earth Science|Engineering Resilience|Geohazards|Interdisciplinary Studies|Interdisciplinary Thinking

This module is intended to meet the growing and recognized need for those in the field of risk and disaster reduction to follow a multi-hazard approach....

Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards and Vulnerability (IRDR0001)

This module is intended to meet the growing and recognized need for those in the field of risk and disaster reduction to follow a multi-hazard approach. Therefore, those in this field need to have an understanding of the hazards and vulnerability from a wide range of both natural and anthropogenic hazards. This module also intends to meet the need to understand a hazard in context with its vulnerability in order to help bridge the gap between studying the causes of a hazard and its implications for individuals and society, policy makers, and industry.

This module will provide a basic scientific knowledge for a number of individual natural and anthropogenic hazards and their vulnerability, likely to include the following: Extra terrestrial hazards such as Extra-Terrestrial Impactors and Solar Flares, Geophysical Hazards such as Earthquakes, Tsunami, Landslides, and Volcanoes, Meteorological events such as Windstorms, Tornadoes, Flood, and Drought, and Anthropogenic Hazards such as Water (availability and contamination), Pandemics, Terrorism, Cyber-crime, Crowding, Health.

The student will learn to compare and contrast the different severity imposed by such natural and anthropogenic hazards, with specific reference to their frequency, geographical extent, economic vulnerability, human vulnerability, our ability to forecast or predict them and the scientific limits on these.