Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Social resilience to hazards (17.URZP09)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Disaster Risk Management and Fire Safety (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Proizvodni i uslužni sistemi, organizacija i menadžment Upravljanje rizikom od katastrofalnih događaja i požara
ECTS	5

The objective of the course is to introduce students with social challenges and necessary activities for creating resistance to different hazardous events. During the course students will gain practical knowledge of how to contribute social resilience and maintain sustainable development of society.

Students acquire knowledge in the field of safety and sustainable development of the society, as well as the importance of the concept of resistance in the context of sustainability. Students will be able to independently and critically analyze social and ethical issues related to risk, to analyze the resilience, safety and sustainability of the society under conditions of uncertainty.

The course is designed with particular focus on critical thinking in relation to societal safety and sustainability. It is structured in modules with a lecture related to scientific, societal and ethical issues concerning risk, resilience, safety and sustainability in uncertain, complex and dynamic environment. During the course students will analyse societal resilience on the base of society’s ability to anticipate, recognize and adapt risk, and to learn and remember. Students will learn concepts for improvement of societal resilience with consideration to human conditions and needs and to societal goals for economically, socially and ecologically sustainable development.

Lectures, Auditory Practice, Consultations

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Vinod Thomas	Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Transforming Economies and Policies for a Sustainable Future	2017	Transaction Publishers	English
Pelling, M.	The vulnerability of cities : natural disasters and social resilience	2007	Earthscan, London	English
Philips, B. D.	Disaster recovery	2016	CRC Press	English
Per Becker	Sustainability Science: Analyzing and Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development	2014	Elsevier	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	Yes	50.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00