ESC 215 Natural Disasters
This course provides an in?depth, hands?on study of natural hazards, their geography, and their impact on societies worldwide. The course focuses on a variety of natural hazards and related disasters including floods, volcanoes, landslides, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunami. Lectures focus on both the physical processes (e.g., underlying geology or geophysics) of selected natural hazards and the human systems that have developed to minimize the impact of natural disasters. 3 lecture hours per week.