Vulnerability, Human Communities and Environment

Undergraduate

Concepts of vulnerability, risk, hazard and disaster; the social and spatial production of vulnerability; relationships among vulnerability and environmental change; social, cultural and policy responses and formal mitigation efforts. Course Format: Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Course Notes: This course may be offered in multiple modes of delivery. The method of delivery will be listed on the academic timetable, in the applicable term.