Risk Factors and Territorial Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Scientific and technical expertise of Master Science level or high level professional or scientific curriculum.

Teaching Methods

The seminar is organized in face-to face sessions with a brief initial presentation by the teacher, and subsequent broader discussion by students. Students will have prior access to the bibliography for each session. Students will prepare a critical report for each set of thematic sessions.

Each student writes an individual paper of conceptual reflection and / or methodological development, focused in one of the subjects studied during the course. This written work is presented and discussed in the classroom.

Learning Outcomes

Aims:

- Understanding of spatial distribution and extent of Risk Factors in Portugal;

- Learning the conditioning and triggering factors of major hazardous phenomena;

- Learning the main methods to assess exposure to natural, technological and environmental hazards;

- Understanding and applying methods and techniques to assess vulnerability and Value of Exposed Elements;

- Learning risk analysis procedures in the territorial management framework.

 

Skills:

- To recognize and manage concepts and scientific terminology on natural, technological and environmental risks.

- To recognize and apply the appropriate methods and techniques to analyse conditioning and triggering factors of natural, technological and environmental hazards.

- To recognize and apply the appropriate methods and techniques to assess exposure, vulnerability and Value of Exposed Elements.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Risk factors regarding hazards of natural, technological and environmental origin in Portugal.

2. Conditioning and triggering factors of major hazards.

3. Evaluation of Exposure to different hazardous processes.

4. Methods and techniques to assess Vulnerability and Value of Exposed Elements.

5. Risk Analysis in the context of territorial management considering cost-benefit analysis and the evaluation of direct and indirect costs.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Luís Gonçalves Moreira da Silva Zêzere

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 10.0%
Research work: 90.0%

Bibliography

Birkmann, J. (Ed.) (2006)-Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards. Towards Disaster Resilient Societies. United Nations University Press,Tokyo
Glade, T., Anderson, M.G., Crozier, M.J. (Eds.) (2005-Landslide Hazard and Risk. Wiley, Chichester
IPCC (2012)-Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA
McGuire, B.; Maslin, M.(eds.)(2013)-Climatic forcing of geological hazards. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester

Rougier, J.; Sparks, S.; Hill, L. (eds.)(2013)-Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards.Cambridge University Press.
Thywissen, K. (2006).Components of Risk. A comparative Glossary. SOURCE,Studies of the University: Research, Counsel, Education, Publication Series of UNU-EHS, nº2, United Nations University
Zêzere,J.L.;Pereira,S.;Tavares, A.O.; Bateira, C.;Trigo,R.M.;Quaresma,I.;Santos, P.P.;Santos, M.;Verde, J. (2014)-DISASTER:a GIS database on hydro-geomorphologic disasters in Portugal. Natural Hazards,72,p.503-532