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Dec 21, 2024
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2020-2021 Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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EMA 140 - Disaster Response and Recovery
Description: Exploration of past and present disasters and emergency responses, and the importance of a sustainability framework for natural and technological hazards. Analysis of loss, costs and other impacts dealt with through preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Course Content:
- Sustainability framework for natural and technological hazards
- Cases of sustainable hazards mitigation
- Losses, costs, and impacts
- Interactive structure of hazard
- Adoption and implementation of mitigation
- Sustainable hazards mitigation and the tools needed
- Preparedness, response, and recovery
- Innovative paths and directions
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the origins and development of current approaches to disaster response and how to move beyond existing approaches. (2,3,5,8)
- Identify the principles, and describe scenarios, of sustainable hazards mitigation. (1,3-7)
- Discuss death, injury, dollar losses, and other impacts and analyze these hazard losses by state. (2,3,5,8)
- Articulate issues in loss and impact measurements along with future losses and data needs. (2,3,5,8)
- Identify the hazardousness of the nation and analyze the systems, (1, 3-7)
- Explain the influences of the adoption and implementation of mitigation. (2,3,5,8)
- Identify the tools needed for sustainable hazards mitigation. (6-8)
- Assess various aspects of preparedness, response, and recovery. (4,6,7)
- Describe innovative paths and new directions of disaster response and recovery and illustrate how to get to the sustainable response and recovery of the future. (1,5,6,8)
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