ERS 22 - Natural Disasters

Institution:

Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course intends to help students develop a critical and multidisciplinary approach to the study of natural and human triggered disasters. Extreme phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, hurricanes, landslides, and floods, are studied both from a geophysical approach to understand their genesis/evolution, and from the socio-economic approach to understand their impact on the built environment. Current strategies for the management and control of emergencies, forecast technologies and disaster mitigation planning, as well as sustainable development policies for recovery and reconstruction after disaster will be discussed. ERS 22 cross-listed as GGR 22. Prerequisistes of ERS 1 or GLY 1 and ERS 2 or permission of the instructor.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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