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Reconstruction after Crises and Disasters, 15 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-04-09

Swedish name: Återuppbyggnad efter kriser och katastrofer
This syllabus is valid: 2020-06-08 valid to 2020-06-14 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Course code: 2KG055
Credit points: 15
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Human Geography: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Political Science: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Excellent, Very good, Good, Satisfactory, Sufficient, Insufficient, Insufficient
Responsible department: Department of Geography
Revised by: Head of Department of Geography and Economic History, 2020-06-11

Contents

The course provides in-depth knowledge of how planning and development work can contribute to reducing the vulnerability of society, with emphasis on sustainability and risk management.  The course provides an orientation on various types of extreme events, such as natural disasters, technical accidents, economic crises, diseases/pandemics, social unrest and conflicts. For these, both causes and consequences are highlighted. Particular attention is paid to risks related to climate change. A point of departure is the UN's goals in Agenda 2030. Nevertheless, the focus is on analyzing potential risks from a systems perspective and preventing future accidents. The latter can be done through planning and promoting sustainable development. In more extreme cases, it can be about reconstruction and efforts to create more resilient societal structures, for example after large natural disasters or large-scale armed conflicts. Scientific studies and relevant planning tools are presented continuously during the course. Examples are taken from both local and national (i.e, mainly Swedish) contexts as well as international contexts, such as developing countries in the Global South.

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Required Knowledge

Univ: 120 ECTS, 60 ECTS of which in a major field of subject.

Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper secondary course English B/6

Literature

Valid from: 2018 week 38

Wisner Ben
At risk : natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters
2. ed. : New York : Routledge : cop. 2004 : 471 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-25215-6 (alk. paper)
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There is no such thing as natural disaster : race, class, and hurricane Katrina
Squires Gregory, Hartman Chester
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : cop. 2006 : 311 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-95487-8
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Water and disasters
Gopalakrishnan Chennat, Okada Norio
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2007 : vii, 136 s.b ill. :
ISBN: 978-0-415-46207-5
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The dilemmas of statebuilding : confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations
Paris Roland, Sisk Timothy D.
London : Routledge : 2009 : xii, 366 s. :
ISBN: 0415776287 (hbk.) :
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Smith Brian C.
Understanding third world politics : theories of political change and development
Fourth edition. : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2013 : 292 p. :
ISBN: 9781137003256
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