GEOL 4093 Risk Assessment 3/0/3
A multidisciplinary investigation into the major societal issue of increasing impacts of natural hazards. We will focus on property damage but also discuss loss of life caused by geologic hazards earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes and meteorological hazards hurricanes, tornadoes , floods and other topics on intent fires, technological hazards, biohazards. A major focus will be one social science issue of planning, politics, economics and their control on management of high hazard areas, vulnerability assessments, and mitigation.
