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Learning Outcomes
1. | Conceptually map and analyse vulnerabilities to emergencies and disasters including risk assessment amongst diverse populations and communities including First Nations peoples of Australia and elsewhere. | ||
2. | Interrogate contemporary sources of data and discourse on disaster management through a planetary health lens; | ||
3. | Advocate for the use of specific and practical frameworks and tools to inform disaster risk reduction, preparedness, response and recovery that fosters ownership and builds resistance; | ||
4. | Exemplify a transdisciplinary and planetary health informed strategic response to emergencies and disasters; | ||
5. | Interpret statements of ethics, human rights and codes of conduct in disaster management and hypothesise their practical impact. |
Assessment
Assessment type | Description | Grade |
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Exercise | Respond to an exercise on frameworks for disaster reduction | 15% |
Report | Compose a report from a localised or place-based perspective of a disaster risk reduction or response | 30% |
Presentation | Debate on ethical dilemmas in disasters | 15% |
Performance | Group simulation on transdisciplinary disaster response (Written and oral) | 40% |
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