SUBJECT
Title
Natural hazards
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
- Natural hazards; the geologist's role in understanding and mitigation. Mechanism, intensity, recurrence period, forecasting.
- Earthquake
- Tsunami
- Volcanic eruption
- Landslide
- Flood
- Erosion
- Sinkhole
- Storm, drought. wildfire
- Sea-level change
Readings
Keller, E.A., DeVecchio, D. (2014): Natural hazards: earth's processes as hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. Pearson Prentice Hall, 576 p.