Disasters, Environment and Development (005DA)
30 credits, Level 6
In this module, you look at the connections between disasters, the environment and development.
The negative impacts of environmental and climatic change and environmentally-related disasters threaten to roll back decades of development gains. Building resilient and sustainable societies means addressing climate and disaster risks, understanding the links between these issues and integrating these risks, as well as potential opportunities, into development planning and budgeting.
The module is split into three parts:
- concepts, exploring similarities and differences in concepts and frameworks and terminology used in these different areas
- problems, looking at issues of droughts, floods and food security, complex disasters, environmental migration, trapped populations and resource wars
- solutions, examining the possible avenues that may help address these problems, including remittance bonds, serious games, blended knowledge and science for humanitarian emergencies and resilience.
21%: Practical (Workshop)
100%: Coursework (Essay, Presentation)
Contact hours and workload
We’re currently reviewing contact hours for modules and will update with further information as soon as it is available.
This module is running in the academic year 2019/20. We also plan to offer it in future academic years. It may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
This module is offered on the following courses: