Geographies of Risk

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• The use of the geographical concept of spatial variation to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of environmental risk
• The essential need for multi-disciplinary and holistic approaches to problems in environmental risk
• Tools for geographical insight (including remote sensing and geographic -information science) and how to apply them to problems in the context of environmental risk
• Compare a variety of geographical theories and perspectives
• Abstract and synthesize information from a range of different types of geographical data, and demonstrate the utility of their spatial characteristics
• Retrieve and use data from a variety of resources
• How particular places and regions within the global mosaic are distinct, and how those distinctions inform their relationships to environmental risk
• Practice using evidence-based research methods and understand their importance

A typical syllabus for this module may include lectures/sessions on:

• economic vulnerability
• risky employment
• "disasters by design"
• theory and science of disease
• food security and food systems
• "caringscapes"
• social traps
• climate finance
• disaster colonialism & disaster capitalism
• coupled human–environmental systems
• Geoengineering the climate
• societal adaptation to climate change

Lectures, podcasts, Q&A sessions

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.