Envg.750        NATURAL HAZARDS: ASSESSMENT, MAPPING AND MITIGATION TOOLS
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Natural hazards and disasters, types and details of natural hazards (earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, landslides and down slope mass-movements, land subsidence-sinkholes-swelling rocks, streams and floods, waves beaches and coastal erosion, hurricanes-thunderstorms-tornadoes, wildfires, impact asteroids and comets, drought), climate change impact on natural hazards, techniques and tools for assessing and mapping natural hazards, application of geographic information systems techniques to manage natural hazards, natural hazards mitigation techniques.

Books Recommended:

• Natural Hazards and Disasters by Hyndman, D. and Hyndman, D., 2008. Cengage Learning, Canada, 555 pages.
• Application of geographic information systems techniques to assess natural hazards by Varnum, N.C., 1987. Hazardous geographic environments, 132 pages.
• North Carolina. Division of Emergency Management. Risk Assessment and Planning
• Branch, 2002. Tools & techniques: an encyclopaedia of strategies to mitigate the impacts of natural hazards. University of North Carolina, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Hazard Mitigation Planning, 176 pages.