ISDM - Landscape Architecture Continuing Education Online Courses

Course Description:

Design must encompass the potential for natural disasters such as fires, snow and avalanche science, and earthquakes. Understanding how these natural events affect the land is a design consideration.  This lecture gives an overview of the different natural disasters we are experiencing and how we can prepare for these occurrences. Also, it will further discuss the visible effect of the process of combustion. In addition, the webinar will explain the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Lastly, it will define the mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside.  Understanding these natural occurrences which are becoming more common in relevant areas, is critical to design thinking.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how design is impacted by natural disasters, fires, earthquakes, and avalanches.

2. Increase knowledge about the history of earthquakes and ways to prepare for this phenomena.

3.  Be taught the importance of wildland fires and why they are becoming more of a problem.

4.  Grasp a better understanding of Avalanche Forecasting and ecology including ways on how to map snow depth.

 
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