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.

Official electronic version updated at 4:25 p.m. December 18, 2003

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