Resilient Communities

Course Description

As population and investment increase in hazard-prone areas across the world, risks and vulnerability are increasing as well. Responding to increased risk and vulnerability involves enhancing resilience or our ability to withstand major shocks without long-term, debilitating physical, social, or economic damage. Resilience as a process can be embodied by communities who proactively prepare for, absorb, recover from, and adapt to actual or potential future adverse events, instead of bearing repeated damage and continuously demand for federal disaster assistance. This course explores the idea of resilience as an outcome and as a process from different perspectives and in different contexts. We will first study resilience through the lens of sociopolitical ecology of risk and vulnerability. Then we will explore resilience in the face of natural, social and economic instabilities or shocks. Finally, we will discuss long term risk management, governance models, policies and politics involved in making our communities more resilient. 3 credits Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Code

SUS 562

Credits

3

Subject

SUS