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Geomorphology and risk asessment in land management

Course Code: SICMI22 • Study year: II • Academic Year: 2021-2022
Domain: Geodetic engineering • Field of study: Earth and cadastral measurements
Type of course: Elective (1 of 2)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Levente Dimén
Seminar tutor: Levente Dimén
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Lecture
Number of teaching hours per semester: 28
Number of teaching hours per week: 2
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 5

Course aims:

Forming skills and mapping skills risk and hazard
Knowledge of the basics of the concept of risk, hazard resilience and morphological vulnerability
Knowledge of the basics of hazard resilience and morphological vulnerability

Course Entry Requirements:

Bachelor degree

Course contents:

1. Overview of the risk. Risk definition
2. Risk classification; Terminology: hazard, risk, disaster, vulnerability,
3. World history and in Romania Lecture,
4. Risk analysis, The social dimension of natural risk Lecture
5. Risks and hazards of a tectonic nature Lecture, Conversation
6. Hazards and risks introduced by slope processes
7. Climatic hazards and risks
8. Glacial and periglacial hazards
9. Wind Hazard Lecture,
10. HR Carsitce Lecture,
  11. Risk identification
12. Risk analysis
13. The risk management process
Synthesis conclusions

Teaching methods:

lectures and field trip

Learning outcomes:

Developing the ability to use theoretical knowledge on
recognition and quantification of factors that induce a morphological risk

-Knowledge of the basics of the concept of risk, hazard
resilience and morphological vulnerability

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

written essay

Recommended reading:

BĂLTEANU Dan, Geomorphological Hazards of Europa, elseviwer, Amsterdam, 1997, 150.
GRECU Florina, Hazarde şi riscuri naturale, Ed universitara, Bucuresti, 2004, 180.
SOROCOVISCHI Victor, Riscuri şi carastrofe,, ed. Casa cartii de stiinta, Clij Napoca, 2002, 200.