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 Course Description
 Course Description 
| GG231 Risks and Disasters: A Geographical Introduction 0.5 | 
| The course examines the nature of danger and disasters, the scope of the human vulnerability and responses to them. It will look at risk and damaging events associated with extreme natural forces, technological accidents, epidemic diseases and human conflict. | 
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