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Map Your Hazards!: Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk
(2019)
Abstract
The Map Your Hazards module provides students an interactive mechanism to engage in place-based exploration of natural hazards, social vulnerability, risk and the factors that shape their communities perception of natural hazards and risk. The module is interdisciplinary in nature as it allows students to integrate interdisciplinary geoscience and social science methodologies to understand societal impacts that result from natural hazards. Students will (1) identify and apply credible geologic and social science datasets to identify hazards and social vulnerability within their region, (2) collect and evaluate survey data on the knowledge, risk perception and preparedness within their social networks, and (3) make recommendations, based on the findings of their work, to potential stakeholders for continued development of a prepared, resilient community. In summary, students will gain insight into how our knowledge and perspectives of the world shape how we interact with it, and how we promote and build resilient communities through understanding the relationship between human systems (built environment) and natural systems.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2019
Comments
Produced through InTeGrate: Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth for a Sustainable Future which features Earth-focused modules and courses for the undergraduate classroom.
Citation Information
Brittany Brand, Pamela McMullin-Messier and Melissa Schlegel. "Map Your Hazards!: Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk" (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brittany_brand/37/