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Lecture 1: Introduction
Yungay peru 31st may 1970,
Yungay peru 31st may 1970impacts,
A disaster
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Lecture 2: Magnitude, frequency and long term view
Magnitude and frequency of natura...,
How often an event of a certain m...,
The concept of recurrence interva...
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Lecture 3: Risk, Vulnerability, Sustainability
Events,
Hazards,
Disaster
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Lecture 4: Ulrich Beck’s Risk society at work: flexible working & ‘risky’ employment
Working in a risk societywhat is ...,
Working in a risk societypost for...,
Flexibility in the labour market
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Lecture 5: Risk/vulnerability and health
How are places related to disease...,
Health geography thinks about pla...,
Social determinants of health
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Lecture 6: Economic Inequality and Global Insecurity
Some argue too much equality is a...,
Why care about inequality if we t...,
Who should we compare ourselves to
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Lecture 7: Data for monitoring natural hazards: Disaster risk reduction
Large spatial and temporal rangeo...,
Remote sensing satellite and airc...,
Ground observations direct sensors
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Lecture 8: Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Science and Society
How many earthquakes a year,
What is an earthquake,
Where do earthquakes occur
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Lecture 9: Volcanic Hazards
How many active volcanoes in the ...,
Since 1950 there have been how ma...,
Average number of eruptions per y...
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Lecture 10: Volcanic eruptions in NW North America: Lessons learned
The caribbean island of montserra...,
Examples of why people may put th...,
The social and political dynamics...
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Lecture 13: Glacial Hazards in a warming world
The cryosphere comprises,
Ice sheet,
Ice shelf
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Lecture 14: Theory & Science of disease
What is a disease,
Non communicable diseases,
Communicable diseases
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Lecture 15: Malaria
Basics of disease transmission,
Malaria is caused by,
Malaria typesplasmodium falciparum
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Lecture 11: Coastal Hazards
Hazard does not always equal,
Hazards are usually measured base...,
Risk
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Lecture: Infrastructures Global and Local
What is infrastructure,
What does the department of homel...,
Basically it encapsulates all the...
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Lecture 12: Periglacial Hazards: Highland and Lowland
Amazing behaviour of ice water va...,
Permafrost is a physical state,
Main areas in permafrost
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Lecture 17: Theory and Science of Floods
Largest rainfall floods occur in ...,
What is the probable maximum flood,
Penning rowsell fordham 1994 sugg...
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Lecture 18: Case studies – floods in the 21st century. Social and political responses
Hazard meaning,
Vulnerability meaning,
Exposure meaning
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Lecture 19: Complexity, tipping points
What is a complex system,
Human environment systemwhat do t...,
If a loop has an odd number of os
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Lecture 20: Defining safe operating spaces for societies
What do exponential curves signify,
Safe limit co2 for climate isnitr...,
Challenges to using planetary bou...
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