. . "201800289" . "NHR_003" . "7"^^ . "196"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-04-20T22:00:00Z"^^ . "f2f" . "The students will focus on the principles and modelling of selected natural hazards through a combination of theory, practicals, and hazard assessment project. Interactive lectures and tutorials in the form of group discussions are planned to facilitate the introduction and comprehension of critical scientific and engineering concepts. The flipped classroom technique will be used as a self-paced educational method to promote the personal involvement of the student in the learning process and to enhance independent thinking. The educational aim of this course is twofold: on one hand, to provide the students with a range of modelling tools in order to develop their practical and technical skills; and on the other, to promote their ability to reason well and to encourage their disposition to do so, at the moment of discussing modelling assumptions, suitability and limitations. These aims are planned to be achieved through supervised practicals and short individual or group assignments, in an initially guided and, later on, more independent environment. Sensitivity analysis of the models and comparison and interpretation of their results, (e.g. using different datasets, modelling techniques and parameters) are intended to trigger active exploration of and reasoning on the physical processes and simulations. Students are further encouraged to deepen into theory and practice with supplementary material to independently explore during the group projects."@en . . . . . . "core courses. This is an elective as part of track NHR,Compulsory for the ‘Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction’ (NHR) specialization of the ‘Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO) programme.\nStudents from other specializations and programmes should have experience with GIS and Remote Sensing, and a background in earth sciences, geography, environmental science or civil engineering."@en . . . "5"^^ . "3" . "2A" . . . "2023-02-05T23:00:00Z"^^ . "The aim of this course is to enhance the student’s understanding of the physical processes that cause natural hazards, the methods and the physically-based modelling approaches for hazard analysis, to the point at which students are able to use them with their own data. As the processes of selected natural hazards, including flooding, landslides and earthquakes, are explained, the students will be introduced to fundamentals of the underpinning science and engineering. Model data requirements and data collection will be treated, as well as the evaluation of uncertainty of input data on simulation outputs. Modelling principles and assumptions, possibilities and limitations will be discussed with the aim that students can make a proper selection of models for a given situation and critically reflect on the results, in order to support hazard analysis as input to risk management and mitigation."@en . "Physically-based Hazard Modelling"@en . . "Physically-based Hazard Modelling"@en . "Physically-based Hazard Modelling"@en . . . "Learning outcome"@en . . "Describe the scientific and engineering principles that underlie natural hazards, including the factors affecting the initiation, the spatio-temporal evolution, and hazard interactions."@en . "Describe the scientific and engineering principles that underlie natural hazards, including the factors affecting the initiation, the spatio-temporal evolution, and hazard interactions