Browse Hierarchy GEOG5005: Environmental Hazard Management

This module examines the management of contemporary environmental processes, especially with reference to rapidly developing areas and hazardous events. It will also deal with the performance of different kinds of environmental management interventions under extreme conditions. The module's context is the ongoing ideological struggle between those environmental professionals who promote technological and those who promote ecological strategies in environmental management. Hence, it will analyse some key current debates in environmental management such as the relative efficacy of soft vs hard engineering, top-down vs bottom-up environmental regulation, technological control vs 'working with nature', sustainable vs self-sustainable development and specialist vs integrated management.