In the Eye of the Storm: A Participatory Course on Coastal Storms

Abstract

Storm disasters are amplified in the coastal environment due to population pressures and the power of the sea. The upper-division/graduate university course Coastal Storms was designed to equip future practitioners with the skills necessary to understand, respond to, and mitigate for these natural disasters. To accomplish this, Coastal Storms integrates active learning approaches, namely literature discussions, GIS labs, and field excursions. Further, the pedagogical model employed aligns the course objectives with fundamental geographic principles: understanding of geographic patterns, awareness of social-physical interactions, and capacity for geographic writing. Informal evaluation of Coastal Storms suggests that the course objectives are being met. Finally, the overall intent of describing the pedagogy of this particular course is so it can be used as a model for shaping the future of hazards courses in geography programs.

Analysis of coastal storms for their application in harbours and coastal structures design

“…Η έρευνα των τελευταίων δεκαετιών επικεντρώνεται στη διαχείριση των καταιγίδων (Hissel et al, 2014;Spencer et al, 2015), στις προβλέψεις ακραίων γεγονότων (Madsen and Jakobsen, 2004;Lowe and Gregory, 2005;McInnes et al, 2007;Mattocks and Forbes, 2008;Rego and Li, 2009;Izaguirre et al, 2013) και στην εφαρμογή συστημάτων έγκαιρης προειδοποίησης (Ciavola et al, 2011b(Ciavola et al, , 2011aGall et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2017). Η διερεύνηση των καταιγίδων έχει εφαρμογή στην ολοκληρωμένη διαχείριση της παράκτιας ζώνης (Curtis, 2013;De la Torre et al, 2013;Hallegatte et al, 2013;Chadenas et al, 2014;Musereau and Regnauld, 2014;Jaranovic et al, 2017), και στο σχεδιασμό λιμενικών και παράκτιων έργων (Phan and Simiu, 2011;McCullough et al, 2013;Takahashi et al, 2014;Altomare et al, 2015;Burmeister et al, 2015;Basco, 2016;Do et al, 2016;Hatzikyriakou and Lin, 2017;Mooyaart and Jonkman, 2017;Mohd Anuar et al, 2018). Σχήμα 2.…”