Duration
48h Th, 4d FW
Number of credits
| Specialised master in risk and catastrophe management | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Alain Dassargues, Benjamin Dewals, Hans-Balder Havenith, Aurelia Hubert, Pierre Ozer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is composed of five parts:
- Part 1: Land subsidence and groundwater salinisations (Prof. Alain Dassargues)
- Part 2: Flood risk (Prof. Benjamin Dewals)
- Part 3: (Prof. Hans-Balder Havenith)
- Part 4: (Prof. Aurelia Hubert)
- Part 5: (Prof. Pierre Ozer)
Based on real-world examples, Part 2 of the course provides an introduction to the complex issues of flood risk assessment and management. The course addresses shortly the following topics: types of floods, flood frequency estimation, influence of environmental changes, vulnerability and impacts, structural and non-structural measures for flood risk management, EU Floods Directive.
Part 3: overview on earthquake and landslide hazards and related risk. The commonly applied method of probabilistic seismic hazard assessment will be explained and some exercices will be done in class.
Part 4:
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- understand the physical processes inducing land subsidence and groundwater salinisations
- analyse a real case-study with respect to the processes described hereabove
- understand the main physical processes influencing different types of floods
- interpret the results of flood frequency analysis
- identify main the main impacts of floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, karst system
- suggest relevant measures for flood, karst, volcanic, seismic risk management
- understand the difference between hazards and risks
- perception of risks related to rare extreme geo-events with large impact potential
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Part 1 : general notions of physics and earth sciences are required.
Part 2 of the course relies on fundamentals in physics (mechanics) and probability theory.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is based on theoretical lectures and on discussions with the students about real-world case studies. Since the course focuses more on a deep understanding of the concepts, the student is requested to take an active part in the lessons, during which the teachers foster direct interactions with the audience.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face lectures.
Recommended or required readings
Slides used during the lectures may be downloaded from eCampus.
The teacher recommends the reading of complementary material. All documents are made available on eCampus.
Assessment methods and criteria
For part 1, a personal report is required about the understanding and analyse of a real case-study (if possible, located in the origin country of the student). The report evaluation is done on the basis of the understanding of the processes and on the basis of the personnal approach adopted by the stsudent.
For Part 2 of the course, a written exam takes place in January and in September.
For part 3, and oral-written exam will be organised in January.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is taught in French, during the first semester.
The schedule and the room should be checked on CELCAT.
Contacts
Aurelia Ferrari: Aurelia.Ferrari@uliege.be
Benjamin Dewals: B.Dewals@uliege.be
Alain Dassargues: Alain.Dassargues@uliege.be
Hans-Balder Havenith: HB.Havenith@uliege.be
Pierre Ozer: pozer@uliege.be