This course will offer the opportunity to study how, in recent years, population growth, economic development and globalization have led to an extraordinary increase of territorial occupation and changes in land use that sometimes have not taken into account coexistence with the natural phenomena. Consequently, there has been an increase in social and economic losses due to natural disasters, following an upward trend.The main topics of the Program are as follows: 1- Basic concepts: Process frequency and magnitude, Hazard, Susceptibility, Vulnerability, Exposition, Risk, Disaster, Resilience, Mitigation. 2- Review of the natural hazards causedby geological and hydro-geological processes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mass movements, Fluvial and Coastal Floods. 3- Main Strategies of Mitigation: How to help Society to cope with the risks. The course is intended for mainly for adult learners and graduate and undergraduate students; and it is highly recommended for those specialized in geology, geography, engineering, landscape planning and management and environmental sciences. However, the course can be taken by high school students and teachers interested in natural hazards and geology as well as professionals of fields related to landscape planning and management and environmental sciences are also welcome. The course will focus on the main types of natural hazards (from a geological point of view) and principles to treat them.

Course leader
Dr Glria Furdada Bellavista. Associate professor of the Faculty of Geology, department Geodynamics and Geophysics. Universitat de Barcelona

Target group
The course is intended for mainly for adult learners and graduate and undergraduate students; and it is highly recommended for those specialized in geology, geography, engineering, landscape planning and management and environmental sciences. However, the course can be taken by high school students and teachers interested in natural hazards and geology as well as professionals of fields related to landscape planning and management and environmental sciences are also welcome.

Course aim
The course will focus on the main types of natural hazards (from a geological point of view) and principles to treat them. The main topics of the Program are as follows: 1- Basic concepts: Process frequency and magnitude, Hazard, Susceptibility, Vulnerability, Exposition, Risk, Disaster, Resilience, Mitigation. 2- Review of the natural hazards causedby geological and hydro-geological processes: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mass movements, Fluvial and Coastal Floods. 3- Main Strategies of Mitigation: How to help Society to cope with the risks

Credits info
2 ECTS ECTS, 20 hours

Fee info
EUR 400: Full price**We offer reduced prices for University of Barcelona Students, Special Partners (even fee waiver), International Networks where the University of Barcelona belongs, and early bird registration discount. EUR 360: Early Bird Price

Scholarships
The University of Barcelona has agreements with other Universities to waive fees of these courses, please ask your institution.

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