GDRR 520 - Natural Hazard Modeling
This course examines the complex and coupled relationship between human development (population growth, urbanization) and environmental hazards by exploring a range of topics such as earthquakes, floods and other natural hazards can cause significant casualties, property damage and business interruption to communities, ultimately impacting people, the economy, the environment, and the long-term development of a region. Quantitative risk modelling helps to get a more comprehensive insight into such hazards and their socio-economic consequences. It contributes to better risk management through: a) a clearer understanding of geographical concentrations of natural hazard risks, b) quantification of potential physical damage, business interruption and casualties, and c) identification of key risk drivers. This approach provides risk intelligence to assist people to make more informed decisions.
Contact Hours
56 hours
1 meeting per week 4 hours per meeting
14 weeks
Prerequisites
GDRR 511, GDRR 521, GDRR 522, GDRR 512
Course Learning Objectives
- CLO 1: Correlate urban development with its effects on the natural environment.
- CLO 2: Apply quantitative risk modeling in analyzing natural hazards
- CLO 3: Identify and evaluate the different aspects considered in the application of Hazard Modeling.
References
Keller, E. A. and D. E. DeVecchio (2012) Natural hazards: earth's processes as hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. Pearson Education, Inc.
Carlson, D. H., C.C. Plummer, L. Hammersley, (2011). Physical Geology Earth Revealed 9th Edition. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Pourghasemi ,H.R.,Rossi, M (2019). Natural Hazards GIS-Based Spatial Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques 1st Edition. Springer.
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EL 624.1762 As41 2004 | Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering Technical Proceedings (2004: Manila, Philippines). Proceedings of the Asia 2004 conference : earthquake engineering technical proceedings. Quezon City : Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, c2004. |
EL 628.1 W2911 2015 | Water resources engineering and management. New York, NY : Callisto Reference, ©2015. |
EL 628.922 J7102 2015 | Jones, A. Maurice, Jr. Fire protection systems. Second edition. 2015. |
ICS 511.8 B5482 2019 | Bittanti, Sergio. Model identification and data analysis. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2019. |