21810288 - SEMINAR - INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL DISASTERS AND RECONSTRUCTION POLICIES

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Programme

1. Introduction: aims of the seminar and reference discipline(s).
2. Natural disasters from a physical point of view, methods of prevention.
3. Disasters in History, institutional changes.
4. Disasters today: emergency, damage and resilience.
5. Risk management, institutional arrangements.
6. Emergency management, comparative experiences.
7. Models of reconstruction, socio-political approach.
8. Reconstruction models, market models.
9. Reconstruction models, public policy models.
10. Introduction to impact assessment.
11. Empirical evidence in the world.
12. Reference framework for empirical analysis of a case study on natural disasters. Identification of working groups and guided choice of case studies. Course conclusions.


Type of delivery of the course

The lessons are carried out on the Microsoft Teams telematic platform. Students register for both the seminar through Moodle and MTeams. Lessons are weekly on the day and at the time scheduled in the didactic calendar of the Department of Political Science. Participants are selected from among those who have applied and in order to allow the teacher to follow the progress of the tests for the exam. Therefore the number of participants admitted is limited before the beginning of the course.