1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Course objectives:
Understanding of main types of natural hazards, of the probability of their occurrence, expected and real damage. Understanding of prevention possibilities and of management possibilities after disasters.

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course:
Understanding of the definitions and the terminology in the field of natural hazards.
Recognising of types of natural hazards, understanding of their occurrence.
Knowledge and ability of accessing the probability of main types of natural hazards.
Understanding and interpreting of natural hazards probability maps.
Knowledge of prevention methods.
Ability to cooperate in planning and proposing risk management measurements and measurements of reducing effects of natural catastrophes.
Ability to cooperate in planning of spatial management immediately after catastrophes.
Ability of simple damage assessments.
Ability of independent browsing and consulting of relevant literature.

Course content:
1 Natural hazards - definitions, terminology.
2 Classifications according to origin, location, size and time scales.
3 Trends in natural catastrophes.
4 Paradigms in natural hazards.
5 Natural exposition and vulnerability to natural hazards.
6 Risk assessments and risk management.
7 Reduction of effects of catastrophes.
8 - 15 Types of hazards, causes, historic records, examples, consequences, reactions, possibilities of prediction and prevention:
8 Geologic hazards.
9 Geomorphologic hazards.
10 - 12 Hydrometeorologic hazards.
13 Marine hazards.
14 Biologic hazards.
15. Chronic and rare global hazards.
Seminar: written seminar paper on a specific hazard, case study.

1. predavanja
2. Wisner, B., Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I., 2003: At Risk: Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters, second ed., Routledge, 124 str. - odabrana poglavlja
3. Smith, K. i Petley, D. N., 2009: Environmental hazards, fifth ed., Routledge, 383 str. - odabrana poglavlja
4. Europska komisija, 2010: Risk Assessment and Mapping Guidelines for Disaster Management, 41 str.
5. Europska komisija, 2017: Overview of Natural and Man-made Disaster Risks the European Union may face, 112 str.
6. UN, 2016: Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction, 41 str.
7. Procjena rizika od katastrofa za Republiku Hrvatsku, 2019. (dostupno na: https://civilna-zastita.gov.hr/vijesti/usvojena-nacionalna-procjena-rizika-od-katastrofa/2001)

Izborni kolegiji - Regular study - Environmental Sciences

Izborni kolegiji - Regular study - Environmental Sciences