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At Risk: The Geography of Environmental Hazards

Description

In this course, students become familiar with an analytical framework that shows how natural and social worlds intersect and lead to disasters. Examples include historical and contemporary case studies of hazards, such as earthquakes, floods, droughts pandemics and climate change. Finally, students analyze a hazard that has taken place using the framework mentioned above, or develop an analysis of potential hazard(s) from their own region.

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  • Institution: Nipissing University
  • Level: University
  • Language: English
  • Course Code: GEOG4437
  • Delivery Method: Entièrement en ligne/à distance

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