Hazard, Disaster and Society

1 Unit · Undergraduate

This course examines how socioeconomic and environmental factors work together to cause hazards and disasters in human society. In this course, we learn the main concepts about disasters, such as preparedness, vulnerability, resilience, response, mitigation, etc. We learn that a disaster does not have the same effect on everyone, and factors of social inequality such as race, ethnicity, class, and gender make people more vulnerable to the impacts of disasters. ENVR_POL 337-0 and GBL_HLTH 337-0 are taught together; students may not receive credit for both.