GEOL 4093 - Risk Assessment

(3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours 3 Credit Hours)

A multidisciplinary investigation into the major societal issue of increasing impacts of natural hazards. Examines property damage and loss of life caused by geologic hazards (earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes), meteorological hazards (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods), and others (fires, technological hazards, biohazards). A major focus will be on social science issues planning, politics, and economics and their control on management of high hazard areas, vulnerability assessments, and mitigation.