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ENST 4451

Geography of Risk and Hazard

Undergraduate

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Meaning and perception of risk
  • Earthquakes
  • Tsunami
  • Volcanic eruptions
  • Mass wasting events
  • Thunderstorms
  • Tornadoes
  • Hurricanes
  • Winter hazards
  • Flooding
  • Droughts
  • Wildfires
  • Radon
  • Acid rain
  • Solid waste storage
  • Liquid waste disposal
  • Nuclear power plants and radioactive waste
  • Extraterrestrial threats
  • Subsidence
  • Epidemics
  • Student Presentations
  • As part of the course, participants
  • Depending on class enrollment, presentations
  • Each presentation
  • Presentations
Winter 2018

Topics

  • proceed in their program. Grades in this course are numerical (not letters)
  • disaster. Routledge

Readings

  • Smith, K. (2013). Environmental Hazards: Assessing risk and reducing disaster. Routledge.
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