University of Liege | Version française
Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
RISQ2005-1  Natural hazards linked to atmospheric extremes and climate variability

Duration :  18h Th, 18h Pr
Number of credits :  
Advanced Master in Natural hazards Management3
Lecturer :  Michel Erpicum, Pierre Ozer, Dominique Perrin
Coordinator :  N...
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
All year long, with partial in January
Course contents :  
The lecture is subdivided into three parts :
Historical climatic variability (Prof M. Erpicum);
Past, current and forthcoming climatic variability in the framework of climate change (Dr D. Perrin)
Extreme climatic events linked to climatic catastrophes in the framework of climate change and variability (Dr P. Ozer)
Learning outcomes of the course :  
The lecture will analyse recent climatic variability and its likely trends in the coming decades. Climate change impacts on natural catastrophes will be analysed as well as the adaptation strategies of vulnerable populations.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Notions in climatology.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Analysis of long term climate databases in order to be able to calculate both frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Based on twelve 3-hours lectures, the curses will be given with a Power Point support fully available to the students.
Recommended or required readings :  
Several refences will be given to the students. Those will be in both French and English. Issued from peer-reviewed journals, all articles will be made available in pdf from this website.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Depending on the lecturer, the evaluation will be or written or oral.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Prof Michel ERPICUM
Département de Géographie, Climatologie
Université de Liège
Bat B11, Parking 12 - Sart Tilman
Tél : 04/366.52.21
E-Mail : michel.erpicumr@ulg.ac.be



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