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DM-802 Disaster Vulnerabilities and Risk Assessment
Campus MCE
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title Disaster Vulnerabilities and Risk Assessment
Course Code DM-802
Credit Hours 3-0
Pre-Requisutes None
Course Objectives Aims to introduce the students to different disaster risk and vulnerabilities assessment and making them proficient in making such assessments for different types of disasters related to Pakistan. The students will be trained through field visits while asking them to prepare their own risk and vulnerabilities assessments for disaster prone areas.
Detail Content
  • Risk identification
    • Understanding of Risk and Hazards
    • Element at Risk and vulnerabilities
    • Types of vulnerabilities( social, political, economic and geographical)
    • Scale of vulnerabilities ( local, regional and national level)
  • Risk perception
    • Theories of Risk Perception
    • Underlying factors for Risk Perception
    • Biases of Risk Perception
  • Types, magnitude and frequency relationship
    • Risk and uncertainty
    • Certainty and probability
    • Hazard prediction - trend projection
    • Hazard prediction -magnitude/frequency analysis
    • Catastrophes
  • Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA)
    • VCA ; Concepts and Definition
    • Purpose of VCA
    • Process of VCA
    • Outcome of a VCA
    • Community Based VCA
    • Disasters and vulnerability
    • Disasters and development
  • Formulation of Spatial Data (GIS)
    • Spatial data quality, decision making and policy analysis
    • The need for spatial metadata
    • Deriving data quality information in GIS
    • Positional accuracy
    • Completeness and logical consistency
    • Attribute accuracy
    • Storing and displaying spatial metadata
  • The Use of GIS in Assessment and Planning
    • GIS Definition and Components
      • Geographic Information Framework
      • GIS Inputs and Outputs
    • The Potential of GIS for Environmental Assessment and Planning
    • GIS Applications and Techniques
      • Digital Mapping
      • Spatial Analysis
      • Modeling
      • Public Participation GIS
    • Setting the GIS Context
      • Mitigation Measures
      • Monitoring
      • Public Participation
  • Hazard/ Risk mapping
    • Hazard Mapping and Risk Assessment
    • Elements of Hazard Mapping
    • Approaches & Methodologies
      • Qualitative Risk Mapping
      • Quantitative Risk Mapping
    • Elements of Hazard Mapping
      • Data Requirements & Availability
      • Data Standardization
      • Target User
      • Scale
      • Cost and Accuracy
    • Types of Hazard Mapping
      • Flood
      • Landslide
      • Seismic
    • Community Hazard Mapping
      • Need for Community Hazard Mapping
      • Process/ Methodologies
      • Community Threat
      • Scientific Information
      • Land Use Planning
      • Risk Assessment
    • Overview of Hazard Mapping and Risk Assessment Initiatives in South Asia
    • Risk Profiling in Pakistan
Text/Ref Books
  • What is VCA? An introduction to vulnerability and capacity assessment. Handbook: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
  • Vulnerability and Risk Assessment – Disaster Management Training Programme www.iaemeuropa.terapad.com/.../UN%20DMTP%20-%20Vulnerability.pdf
  • Disaster Risk Management and Vulnerability Reduction www.adpc.net/infores/adpc-documents/PovertyPaper.pdf Multi Hazard Risk Assessment using GIS www.adpc.net/audmp/rllw/themes/th1-westen.pdf
Time Schedule Fall 2015
Faculty/Resource Person Brig Fiaz Hussain Shah MS Disaster Management