Learning From Disasters: Extreme Events and Their Impact on Infrastructure, Engineering and Society

4 units · Undergraduate

Introduction to six dimensions of sustainability while learning the main impacts and threats caused by various extreme events through the study of academic publications and reports covering six major extreme events. Long term impacts and recovery from extreme events, how historical decisions in planning, engineering and/or urban development, legislation play important roles. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for EarthSc 3530. Cross-listed in EarthSc.