HCS 460 Threat System Management

This course examines analytical and policy skills used to frame the issues of risk so that other participants in local, national and international policy processes will understand the global need for disaster reduction, and act in constructive ways. Topics include the scope of risk to human communities that is emerging on a global scale from natural and man-made disasters, a critical review of the consequences of terrorism for metropolitan regions around the world, policy issues involved in coping with the political, social and economic consequences of disasters, and the interdependence of these issues with other forms of development, the range of perspectives - scientific, economic, political, organizational and social - that are involved in understanding the consequences of disaster for human communities, the links between the vulnerability of communities to disaster and the consequences of political and economic instability that lead to civil conflict. In addition, decision making processes that illustrate the conflicting interests among multiple policy audiences in recovery from hypothetical disasters are also explored.

Credits

3