JGE378H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Risk Assessment
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It"s typically more convenient, but not necessarily easier or less time-consuming. Online learning requires a di erent type of self- Don"t let yourself fall behind on the lectures. Scheduling, time management, planning ahead, and watching for due dates even more important than in a regular course. Usually a university or college close to your home, that provides exam invigilation; you are responsible for all fees. Introduction/framework: hazard, disaster, risk, vulnerability and resilience, geophysical hazards earthquake week. Volcano week: landslide week, hydro meteorological hazards flood week. Heat, drought, wild re week: biological hazards and extraterrestrial hazards. How can we tell when to expect the next eruption: answer: Scienti c study, understanding, modelling, and monitoring of the volcano. Technological hazards: risk analysis is an important component in our understanding of the e ects of hazardous processes, risk assessment involves calculating probabilities: 2: when, where, how often, how big. Possible costs lives and property: risk assessment involves consideration of impacts, primary, secondary, tertiary.
