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Course Name	Turkish	Jeolojik Tehlikeler
	English	Geohazards
Course Code	JDM 626E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Cengiz Yıldırım
Course Objectives		- Understanding the basic concepts and control mechanisms that govern geohazards, - Understanding and interpretation of physical principles, frequencies and magnitudes of geohazards - Significance and the extent of environmental, human and economic losses due to geohazards
Course Description		The course gives an overview to different types of geohazards, their significances and how do disasters affect the natural environment and the human life, will be deliberated? Main focus will be on Turkish geohazards, but extreme events from other parts of the world will be discussed. Main emphasis will be on landslides, floods, erosion, tsunamis and earthquakes, for which the geological and physical process will be discussed in addition to potential consequences and methods for quantifying hazard. In addition, we will discuss the links between different types of geohazards, their triggering mechanisms and domino effects.
Course Outcomes		PhD students who take this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects - Explain the physical and geological processes causing geohazards such as landslides, floods, tsunamis and earthquakes - Explain possible consequences of geohazards as well as susceptibility, hazard, risk and disaster concepts - Describe methods for quantifying hazard for the individual geohazards and factors controlling their uncertainty
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Textbook		Keller, E. A., & DeVecchio, D. E. (2016). Natural hazards: earth's processes as hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. Routledge.
Other References		McCall, Gerald J. (2012). Geohazards: natural and man-made. Springer Science & Business Media. Keller, E. A., & DeVecchio, D. E. (2016). Natural hazards: earth's processes as hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. Routledge. Bolt, B. A., Horn, W. L., MacDonald, G. A., & Scott, R. F. (2013). Geological Hazards: Earthquakes-tsunamis-volcanoes-avalanches-landslides-floods. Springer Science & Business Media.

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