Format
Online
Date
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The topics of lectures are listed bellow:
- What is disaster management? What are the basic terms used in this discipline (hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, reparedness, response, recovery etc)?
- Understanding earthquake hazard
- Understanding tsunami hazard
- Cyclones/typhoons/hurricane/tropical storms
- Coastal flooding/sea level rise
- Understanding floods (river flood, flash flood, catastrophic flood, coastal flood), floods in underground infrastructure
- Understanding landslides
- Understanding volcanoes
- Understanding drought (or water scarcity in rural and urban areas)
- What constitutes vulnerability and capacity? And how does it relate to better management of disasters? What is resilience? Can it be measured?
- Weather forecasting and early warning system in Asia and Pacific
- Spatial analysis for disaster management, GIS remote sensing, etc
- Coastal inundation mapping toolkit
- Coastal community resilience framework
- Recovery planning
- Comparative recovery case study from Kobe and San Francisco earthquake
- Understanding urban risk and resilience in megacities context.