Hazards and Disaster Management MSc: Field work

Fieldwork is an essential part of the Hazard and Disaster Management course. As well as contexualising the academic aspects of the course, fieldwork is used to:

• improve your understanding of the techniques used to gather field data; and
• provide an opportunity to conduct 'read-world' hazard management exercises.

You will undertake a supervised week-long visit to a European field destination affected by multi-hazards (usually to Tenerife in June). You will conduct hazard, risk and vulnerability assessment of the area and evaluate existing hazard management strategies by the regional/local authorities.

Photogallery

As this is a relatively new programme, we don't yet have any images of course-specific fieldtrips. However, you can view the photo gallery below for some images of our recent fieldtrips to Tenerife (2004–08) and Australia (2008) on related undergraduate courses.

During the trip to Australia, students on the undergraduate Environmental Hazards and Disaster Management BSc spent 17 days exploring hazard and disaster management in the country, from tropical cyclones and flooding in North Queensland to tsunamis, earthquakes and bushfires in New South Wales.

The group visited the Great Barrier Reef to examine the effects of climate change on the reef ecosystem and in Cairns they studied the effects of Tropical Cyclone Larry, which struck in 2006. In New South Wales, they examined Tsunami risk on the coastline and completed a project on quantifying and managing the effects of a megadisaster on Sydney.

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