DRRM | Virginia Tech
Reducing The Impacts of Disasters
CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK AND TALK ABOUT DISASTER RESILIENCE
We invite graduate students from relevant disciplines - geosciences, engineering, business, urban affairs and planning, and more - to join us and help lead the change. Click the links below to learn more about Virginia Tech's program in Disaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM).
GRAD 5034: Principles Of Disaster Risk Management
This interdisciplinary seminar course introduces the concepts of disaster resilience and risk management. Students will:
- Learn about interdisciplinary approaches to disaster risk management, including the various theoretical underpinnings, and will draw from guest speaker lectures and case histories.
- Gain an improved understanding of the dynamic interplay between the key social and cultural impacts that social science students recognize and the basic risk analysis skills that those in the hard sciences understand