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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 11.941 (Spring 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Urban Studies and Planning 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. JoAnn Carmin
    Prof. Jennifer Leaning 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 11.941 Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience



    Spring 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive set of readings as well as a complete set of lecture notes.


    Course Description


    In recent years, the redistribution of risk has created conditions for natural and technological disasters to become more widespread, more difficult to manage, and more discriminatory in their effects. Policy and planning decision-makers frequently focus on the impact that human settlement patterns, land use decisions, and risky technologies can have on vulnerable populations. However, to ensure safety and promote equity, they also must be familiar with the social and political dynamics that are present at each stage of the disaster management cycle. Therefore, this course will provide students with:
    1. An understanding of the breadth of factors that give rise to disaster vulnerability; and
    2. A foundation for assessing and managing the social and political processes associated with disaster policy and planning.
     

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