Management of Natural Disasters and Rural Restoration

Lectures

Natural events, natural hazards and natural disasters. Scale and natural disasters. Distinction of risks and disasters.

Risk, Hazard, Exposure, Vulnerability

Remote sensing and GIS of natural disasters.

Natural disasters and climate change

Natural disasters and agriculture

Geological hazards (earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes)

Meteorological / climatic hazards (droughts, storms, cyclones)

Biological / biological hazards (insects, invaders, diseases)

Fires

Floods

Risk assessment systems.

Risk mapping and impact assessment.

Restoration plans

LABORATORY EXERCISES

1-2. Risk assessment

3-4. Risk mapping and impact assessment

5-6. Remote sensing of natural disasters

7-8 GIS of natural disasters

9-10 Restoration plans