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DM-803 Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness
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Campus
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MCE
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Spring Semester 2017
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Course Title
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness
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Course Code
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DM-803
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Credit Hours
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3-0
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Pre-Requisutes
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None
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Course Objectives
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Aims to give students understanding of concepts and methodologies for disaster preparedness and response and making them capable to suggest workable plans for field case histories.
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Detail Content
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- Conceptual and Methodological Issues
- Types of Disasters
- Disaster management stages
- Time Scale (pre, during and post disaster scenario)
- Disaster Classification
- Vulnerabilities, Impact and scale of damage
- Coping Capacities Mechanism
- Classification of damages and effects
- Social, infrastructure, economic, environmental and overall effects of damages
- Databases and Disaster Information
- Types and sources of disaster related information
- Development of appropriate databases from community level to the national level
- Database coordination, sharing and communication over time and space
- Disaster Preparedness
- Situation Analysis (Risks, vulnerabilities & capacities)
- Response Mechanism (existing and required)
- Preventive measures / methodologies
- Preparedness Planning (Need for preparedness planning, Planning processes and elements)
- Mitigation Measures
- Coordination
- Resource Mobilization
- Information Management
- Early Warning System (existing and required)
- Public Education, Training and Rehearsals
- Social and Economic Impact Assessment of Disasters
- Impact assessment framework/process
- Tools and techniques
- Contingency Planning and its Process
- Hazard and risk analysis, contingency prioritization
- Scenario building
- Preparing a contingency plan for each selected scenario
- Rescue, relief, and evacuation planning
- Monitoring and updating the contingencies plan
- Integrating Disaster Preparedness with Development
- Mainstreaming DRR into Development
- Structural Measures (Disaster shelters, Emergency housing, evacuation shelters, Retrofitting, etc)
- Non-Structural Measures
- Legislations and Reforms (Building Code etc)
- Institutional Strengthening
- Building Safer and Resilient Communities
- Risks and Needs of the communities:
- Prone to natural disasters
- Post disaster communities
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Text/Ref Books
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- Asian Disaster Reduction Center, Kobe, Japan, Total Disaster Risk Management (Good Practices), 2005.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2003.
- Handbook for Estimating the Socio-economic and Environmental Effects of Disasters, Vol. 1 to 4, 2003.
- Joseph Gustin, Disaster & Recovery Planning: A guide for facility managers, 4th Edition, Fairmont Press, 2002.
- Donna R. Childs and Stefan Dietrich, Contingency planning and disaster recovery, john Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002.
- WFP, Contingency Planning (Guidelines). UNCHR, Handbook for emergencies, 1982.
- Publication: A framework for community safety and resilience - In the face of disaster risk
- Publication: The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction Building safer, resilient communities
- Publication: Defusing disaster – Reducing the risk: calamity is unnatural
- Publication : Natural Hazards, Un-Natural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention
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Time Schedule
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Spring 2015
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Faculty/Resource Person
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Maj Dr Naeem Shahzad PhD in Environmental Engineering
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