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290039 RV Lecture Series: Risk Prevention and Disaster Management (2015W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

gilt auch als VO Aktuelles Forschungsspektrum in der Risikoforschung, welche erst wieder im SS 2016 gehalten wird

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

2. Prüfungstermin: voraussichtlich Anfang März 2016
3. Prüfungstermin: Ende April/Anfang Mai 2016

  • Tuesday 06.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 13.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 20.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 27.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 03.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 10.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 17.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 24.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 01.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 15.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 12.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 19.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 26.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal II NIG Erdgeschoß

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Risk prevention and disaster management are interdisciplinary fields of science and research. The “Ringvorlesung: Risk prevention and disaster management” through 13 Lectures by international experts from science, research, national and international organisations will attempt to give a spherical view of the wide and interdisciplinary field of “Risk prevention and disaster management”.

Through the Ringvorlesung "Risk prevention and disaster management” the students will:
• get an overview of the state of the art in the field,
• learn about the key principles of emergency and risk management,
• be introduced to the socioeconomic context of disasters
• become familiar with risk governance and its role in disaster management
• have an overview of future challenges in risk prevention and disaster management

Lectures:

06.10.2015
Risk prevention and disaster management –past activities and current stage
Thomas Glade (UNIVIE-Vienna, Austria)

13.10.2015
Key principles of emergency and disaster management
David Alexander (UCL-London,UK)

20.10.2015
Risk management principles – the engineering perspective
Unni Eidsvig (NGI-Oslo, Norway)

27.10.2015
Managing geodata for disaster response –the Austrian response team
Friedrich Teichmann (BMLVS-Vienna, Austria)

03.11.2015
The economics of risk prevention and disaster management
Hannelore Weck-Hannemann (UIBK-Innsbruck, Austria)

10.11.2015
The role of risk governance in disaster management
Ortwin Renn (SOWI V- Stuttgart, Germany)

17.11.2015
Vulnerability and resilience in disaster management
Sven Fuchs (BOKU-Vienna, Austria)

24.11.2015
Children, risk and disasters
Lori Peek (CDRA- Colorado, USA)

01.12.2015
Pre-disaster financing for humanitarian aid and infrastructure repair
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer (IIASA-Vienna, Austria)

15.12.2015
The principles of quantitative risk analysis
Cees van Westen (ITC-Enschede, Netherlands)

12.01.2016
The role of the United Nations in risk prevention and disaster management
Jacob Rhyner (UNU-EHS-Bonn, Germany)

19.01.2016
The science in Disaster Risk Reduction –IRDR within ISSC, ICSU and UN-ISDR
Susan Cutter (IRDR & HVRI-Columbia, USA)

26.01.2016
Risk prevention and disaster management – future challenges
Maria Papathoma-Köhle (UNIVIE-Vienna, Austria)

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam at the end of semester

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The aim of the “Ringvorlesung: Risk prevention and disaster management” is to give an overview of the different aspects of risk prevention and management, present the state of the art and give an outlook of the future challenges in the field.

Examination topics

Series of lectures with discussion

Reading list


Association in the course directory

(B11-8.1) (MG-W2-NPI) (L2-a-zLV) (UF MA GW 02)

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