OVERVIEW

The course foresees a first module providing the students with the general knowledge to assess disaster risk with different approaches. The second module provides the students with the methodologies of human health risk assessment and ecological risk assessment of chemicals.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Module  INTEGRATED RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT

The aim of the module is to introduce the student to the concept of risk management and provide basic tools to draw risk maps starting from any hazard map.

Module  ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICALS

The aim of the module is to provide the student with basic principles and methods to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and ecological risks to organisms and receptors due to chemical contaminants present in the environment, released during disasters or by Human and Industrial Activities.

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of Matlab programming language

Use of basic functionalities of Geographic Information Systems (e.g. QGis)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

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Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The final grade will result from the arithmetic average of the marks of the two modules.