Spring 2027

Planning for Resilience to Natural Hazards

Planning for Resilience to Natural Hazards provides theoretical and practical approaches to planning for community resilience, examining disaster cycles and mitigation strategies.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Asligul Gocmen

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the cycle of activities that surround planning and responding to natural disasters.

  • Recognize the principles of building community resilience to natural hazards.

  • Identify various planning approaches to addressing natural hazards.

  • Recognize the institutional context within which natural hazard mitigation and recovery planning occurs.

  • Identify and analyze which communities and which community members might be more vulnerable to natural hazards.

  • Improve their written and oral communication skills.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

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Prerequisites

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GEOSCI/​ATM OCN 140 or sophomore standing

ENVIRST/GEOG/URBRPL 431

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 240
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 240
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 240

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Student experience

the class

Provides a theoretical background and practical approaches to planning to increase community resilience to natural hazards. Examines why some communities bounce back quicker from disasters than others. Explores institutional contexts relevant to natural hazards and topics such as the disaster cycle, structural and non-structural approaches to natural hazard mitigation, and physical and social vulnerability to natural hazards.

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Topics

  • Disaster cycle, structural and non-structural mitigation approaches, and physical and social vulnerability to natural hazards
  • Community recovery speed after disasters

Skills

  • Practical approaches to planning for community resilience to natural hazards
  • Written and oral communication skills

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ENVIRST/GEOG/URBRPL 431 · Spring 2027

Planning for Resilience to Natural Hazards

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENVIRST/GEOG/URBRPL 431 · Spring 2027

Planning for Resilience to Natural Hazards

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENVIRST/GEOG/URBRPL 431 · Spring 2027

Planning for Resilience to Natural Hazards

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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