IA 245 Making Disasters: Natural Hazards and Human Vulnerability

Natural hazards and disasters drastically influence human security around the globe. Understanding how human security is related to hazard risk is integral to addressing the inequalities that emerge from local-global relationships. This course emphasizes a critical and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between natural hazards and the socio-political contexts in which they occur, while focusing on diverse, international case studies that stress governance, international aid, and the connections between global relationships and local vulnerability. [GM2, SS]

 

 

Prerequisite

Sophomore standing

Instructor

Trumble