Geohazards and Climate Change
Semester programme
Global warming can enhance local extreme weather conditions, which in turn can affect the frequency of geohazards such as landslides, avalanches and flooding. This course provides you with a broad understanding of the interaction between atmospheric and Earth's surface processes that control the occurrence of potentially catastrophic geohazardous events.
Teaching semester: Spring
First lecture: Monday, January 16th 2023
During this course, you will:
- learn about basic meteorological processes and their interplay during past, present and future climate change.
- gain a broad understanding of processes that create tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, landslides and avalanches, and how these can affect infrastructure and people.
- achieve knowledge about hydrological systems in urban and rural areas including measures, strategies and plans for run-off management.
The location of the campus offers a great opportunity to visit nearby sites, where you can directly study a broad range of active geohazardous processes, and investigate the results of past geohazard events (including tsunamis, instable bedrock slopes, landslides, avalanches and floods).
The course consists of the following modules:
Study methods
The teaching combines lectures, assignments and excursions. In addition, a research project will be conducted throughout the whole semester.
The language of instruction is English.