Natural Hazards and Risk Assessment

Education facts

Code: SBG542

The course treats different types of environmental hazards and their associated processes and consequences, especially in terms of the effects on spatial planning and the built environment. Through the course the student shall acquire knowledge about those processes that create risk and vulnerable conditions for human life, as well as knowledge on how to mitigate or prevent such effects. Course topics are for example: Natural hazards (e.g. volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis, jökulhlaups, floods, hurricanes, landslides and other mass movements) and attitudes and preparedness of the society towards natural hazards. The course will apply basic methods for vulnerability and risk analysis for risk map production.

Entry requirements

Earth Science 7.5 hp or equivalent, and GIS 15 hp

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Natural Hazards and Risk Assessment

  University of Gävle

  Gävle

  Start date: 18 January 2027

  End date: 28 March 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %