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Course description

This course provides students with an understanding of the policies, practices and politics of disaster and crisis management. The course locates contemporary disasters and crises within domestic, international and developing contexts and it applies development, public policy and political science lenses to understand them. This allows students to think practically about the ways in which disasters can be managed and to think critically about the ways in which disaster management ought to proceed. Students will apply their practical and critical thinking to the exploration of vulnerability, resilience and crisis planning, leadership, decision making and emergency responses, and modes of reform and recovery that are participatory and emancipatory in nature.

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