Course info
IRDR0001: Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards and Vulnerability (21/22)
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.
Course contacts
Tutor
CB
IK
Course Administrator
MA
LA
YB
RG