Academic Year/course:
2017/18
277 - Degree in Environmental Sciences
25220 - Natural risks
Syllabus Information
Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
25220 - Natural risks
Faculty / School:
201 - Escuela Politécnica Superior
Degree:
277 - Degree in Environmental Sciences
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3
Semester:
First Four-month period
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview
The learning and teaching methodology developed in the course Riesgos Naturales is aimed to promote the attainment of its objectives. A wide range of teaching and learning activities is implemented, such as interactive lessons, practical exercises, individual or group activities, directed activities, and private study. Extensive material will be available via the Moodle site of the course. This offers a variety of resources including a repository of the lecture notes used in class as well as other forms of course-specific complementary materials.
5.2. Learning tasks
Lecture sessions: in these sessions, conceptual and methodological aspects of the program will be presented, alternating the exhibition of PowerPoint presentations, with the access to web pages in which there appear illustrative examples related to the boarded theme.
The students will have in the ADD of complementary material (articles, linkage of web pages, exercises, etc.) and will have to consult the same way the recommended bibliography.
Practical sessions: they will take place in the computer classroom. Beginning every session the necessary information will be facilitated to the student to carry out the tasks to be developed in the practice, and in case the above mentioned practice has to join to the briefcase of learning, additional information about how it will have to appear.
The practices will include, between others: comment and critical evaluation of different cartographies of susceptibility, hazard and risk, compilation and evaluation of information about different events, calculation of maximum expected water throughflow for a return-period, identification and cartography of areas exposed to floods, making of maps of susceptibility to slope processes, maps of probable areas of avalanches, etc.
Directed work: in groups of 4 students. The work will refer to a natural event happened in the past that has caused damages to the society. The general subject-matter (not the concrete case of study, which will be able to be chosen by the components of the group of work) will be assigned by drawing, and the paragraphs that will have to be contemplated in the same one, will be facilitated to the students.
Tutorships: They are implemented to help the students to carry out the works and exercises that they must solve individually or in group, and also as a help to solve doubts related with the theoretical and practical program of the course.
5.3. Syllabus
The subjects of this course are divided into 9 modules, which include the following theory and exercise sessions:
Module 1.Natural Risks: conceptual and methodological aspects.
Module 2.The natural risks in territory management.
Module 3. Risks associated with slope processes.
Module 4. Seismic risks.
Module 5. Volcanic risks.
Module 6. Risks associated with subsidence.
Module 7. Climatic risks.
Module 8.Geoclimatic risks: floods.
Module 9.-Risks associated to fire.
5.4. Course planning and calendar
For further details concerning the timetable, classroom and other information of the course please refer to the: Escuela Politécnica Superior de Huesca web site (http://eps.unizar.es/academico/horarios-ccaa).
5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources
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Keller, Edward A.. Riesgos naturales : procesos de la Tierrra como riesgos, desastres y catástrofes / Edward A. Keller , Robert H. Blodgett . [1ª ed.] Madrid : Pearson , D. L. 2007 |
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Riesgos naturales y desarrollo sostenible : impacto, predicción y mitigación / F.J. Ayala Carcedo ... [et al.] (eds.) ; [Salvador Ordoñez Delgado ... [et al.]] . [1ª ed.] Madrid : Instituto Geológico y Minero, D. L. 2007 |
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Bryant, Edward A.. Natural Hazards / Edward Bryant . Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 1991 |
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Calvo García-Tornel, Francisco. Sociedades y territorios en riesgo / Francisco Calvo García-Tornel . Madrid : Ediciones del Serbal, 2001 |
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Catálogo nacional de riesgos geológicos = Geological hazards catalogue : with english summary / [Francisco J. Ayala Carcedo...[et al.] . Madrid : Instituto Tecnológico Geominero de España, 1988 |
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Dagorne, Andrée. Les risques naturels : la cindynique / Andrée Dagorne, René Dars . 2e. ed. mise a jour Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2001 |
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Ledoux, B. (2005). La gestion du risque inondation. París: Lavoisier |
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Murck, Barbara W.. Dangerous earth : an introduction to geographic hazards / Barbara W. Murck, Brian J. Skinner, Stephen C. Porter New York [etc.] : John Wiley, cop. 1997 |
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Nuhfer, Edward B.. Guía ciudadana de los riesgos geológicos : Guía para comprender los riesgos geológicos, incluyendo suelos expansivos, asbestos, radón, terremotos, volcanes, deslizamientos, subsidencia, inundaciones y riesgos costeros / Realizado por el Instituto Americano de Geólogos profesionales ; Autores Edward B. Nuhfer, Richard J. Proctor, Paul H. Moser ; con Jhon E. Allen... [et al.] ; adaptdo al español por José L. Barrera... [et al.] ; editado en versión española por Luis Suárez y Manuel Regueiro . Madrid : Colegio oficial de Geólogos de España, D.l. 1997 |
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Ortega Domínguez, Ramón. Manual de gestión del medio ambiente / Ramón Ortega Domínguez, Ignacio Rodríguez Muñoz . - 4a. ed. rev. y act. Madrid : Mafre, 2000 |
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Smith, Keith. Environmental Hazards : Assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith . - 3ª ed., 2ª reimp. London ; New York : Routledge, cop. 2003 |
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Olcina, J., Zamora, R. (2000). Los riesgos naturales a través de la red Internet. Recursos didácticos y de investigación. Boletín de la Asociación de Geografos Españoles, 30, 193-205
[http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/listaarticulos?tipo_busqueda=EJEMPLAR&revista_busqueda=3360&clave_busqueda=106856] |
The updated recommended bibliography can be consulted in: http://psfunizar7.unizar.es/br13/egAsignaturas.php?id=2173