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This course examines different approaches to the study of environmental hazards and disaster management, pre-event mitigation, disaster risk reduction and disaster relief along with the development of technical and interpersonal skills. It will enable students to critically assess the effectiveness of the implementation of existing techniques in order to evaluate good practice and apply it to new situations. The course will ensure a sound working knowledge and experience with GIS and spatial information, extensively used by many planning authorities, and will develop valuable skills in the acquisition and processing of spatial datasets with a wide variety of disaster management applications, along with the ability to visualize and depict spatial information. Students will develop interpersonal including the assessment of priorities, allocation of resources and co-ordination of activities |