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Climate Hazards and Disaster Mitigation

Prof. Priyank J. Sharma · IIT Indore

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Introduction to climate hazards and disasters Video
  2. Climate change and vulnerability of India Video
  3. Hazard versus disaster and Risk versus vulnerability Video
  4. Summary: Climate hazards, disasters and vulnerability Video
  5. Learning Exercise: Mapping climate vulnerability profile Video

Week 2

  1. Hydroclimatic measurements and data Video
  2. Extreme rainfall and temperature indices Video
  3. Geospatial data analysis for disaster mitigation Video
  4. Summary Hydroclimatic and geospatial data processing Video
  5. Hands on Downloading and processing gridded rainfall and temperature data Video

Week 3

  1. Floods: Types, characteristics, causes and drivers Video
  2. Deriving flood characteristics & frequency analysis Video
  3. Trend analysis of flood characteristics Video
  4. Summary: Statistical techniques for flood assessment Video
  5. Hands-on: Flood frequency and trend analysis Video

Week 4

  1. Flood frequency analysis Distribution fitting Video
  2. Compound and concurrent floods Video
  3. Bivariate flood frequency analysis using copula Video
  4. Summary Univariate and bivariate flood frequency analysis Video
  5. Hands on Flood Frequency Analysis - Univariate and Bivariate Video

Week 5

  1. Urban flood modelling Video
  2. Flood hazard and risk mapping Video
  3. Flood mitigation and nature-based solutions Video
  4. Summary: Flood risk assessment and mitigation Video
  5. Hands-on: Urban flood risk assessment Video

Week 6

  1. Droughts Types, characteristics, causes and drivers Video
  2. Estimation of drought indices Video
  3. Assessment of drought characteristics Video
  4. Summary Drought estimation and assessment Video
  5. Hands on Assessment of drought characteristics Video

Week 7

  1. Drought severity and frequency analysis Video
  2. Drought propagation and transition Video
  3. Drought mitigation and nature-based solutions Video
  4. Summary: Drought severity and mitigation Video
  5. Hands-on: Drought propagation and transition Video

Week 8

  1. Heat waves Causes and drivers Video
  2. Estimation of heat stress Video
  3. Urban heat island Video
  4. Summary Heat waves and heat stress Video
  5. Hands on Assessment of heat wave and stress Video

Week 9

  1. Cold waves Causes and drivers Video
  2. Compound climate extremes Video
  3. Heat and cold wave mitigation approaches Video
  4. Summary Compound climate extremes Video
  5. Hands on Assessment of compound climate extremes Video

Week 10

  1. Science meets policy and disaster mitigation Video
  2. Disaster risk reduction and economics of disasters Video
  3. Emergency and humanitarian response in disasters Video
  4. Summary: Disaster management and risk reduction Video
  5. Learning Exercise: Formulating a heat action plan Video

Week 11

  1. Study of disaster management frameworks Video
  2. The Disaster Management Act 2005 India Overview Video
  3. The Disaster Management Act 2005 India Key Aspects Video
  4. The Disaster Management Act 2005 India Way forward Video
  5. Learning Exercise: Formulating a flood emergency action plan Video

Week 12

  1. Role of big data in climate hazards and disaster modelling Video
  2. Role of climate change in modulating future occurrences of climate hazards Video
  3. Accounting non stationarity in modelling climate hazards Video
  4. Course Summary Climate hazards and risk assessment Video
  5. Course Summary Disaster mitigation and management Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Indore
Department
Civil Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Priyank J. Sharma
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
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