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290145 SE Cartography and GI in Early Warning Crises Management: Theory and Practice (2018S)

5.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

TUE 06.03.2018 09:00-11:00 GIS-Lab
WED 07.03.2018 15:00-17:00 SR 5th floor
MO 09.04.2018 13:00-16:00 GIS-Lab
TUE 10.04.2018 14:00-17:00 MM-Lab
WED 11.04.2018 13:00-15:00 GIS-Lab
MO 16.04.2018 13:00-16:00 GIS-Lab
TUE 29.05.2018 14:00-16:00 MM-Lab
WED 30.05.2018 08:00-11:00 SR 5th floor and 15:00-17:00 GIS-Lab
TUE 05.06.2018 13:00-16:00 MM-Lab
WED 06.06.2018 15:00-17:00 MM-Lab

Location: Computerkartographie Geographie NIG 1. OG

  • Wednesday 07.03. 15:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Wednesday 30.05. 08:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The objective of the course is to inform, explain, analyze, interpret, and communicate the role of cartography and geo-information in early warning (EW) and crises management (CM) situations and the improvement of their use in adequate operations with the aim to show their up to now under-valued potentials and ways how to integrate the knowledge of the cartographic, geographic, and ICT communities to EW and CM into a wide decision making process.
The new approaches, evaluations, potential solutions and visualizations towards Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) defined for scientific and research fronts by United Nations Conference in Sendai, Japan in 2015, and as well as EU, would be highlighted.

Contents
- Types and specifications of disasters
- Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRM)
- Disaster Risk Reduction Concept (DRR)
- Potentials of Cartography and Geoinformatics in Big Data Era
- Volunteer Geographic Information and Social media for DRR
- Analyze of World best practices and unsucceses in developing and developed countries (hurricane Catrina, Fukushima nuclear power station, Chrnobyl, Bhopal)

Method
- For each main topic, there will be a lecture, group discussions on journal article readings, and a lab.
- Each student will develop a research idea related to any of the above topics. A class workshop will be held in early June to discuss everyone's research idea and design. The idea can, but is not required to, be further developed into the final class project.
- Each student will complete a (mini) final project by the end of the class.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- Participation in class discussions (40%)
- Research design workshop (30%)
- The mini-final project (30%)

Examination topics

Reading list

see moodle

Association in the course directory

(MG-S1-PI) (MK4a-SE)

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