BSc (Hons) Geography with Natural Hazard Management at University of Chester

The Geography with Natural Hazard Management course provides you with the foundational knowledge and understanding of natural hazard processes and the dynamics between hazards, vulnerability, and risk critical to hazard management. During this course, you will dive into how natural hazards operate, learn about the risks they pose to people and places, and how it can be managed. The course looks at both environmental and social dimensions of disasters at a range of scales from global to local.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Department: School of Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Duration: 3 years (Full-Time); 4 years (Full-Time with Industry Placement); 4 years (Full-Time with Year Abroad)  |  Study mode: full-time, placement year option  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

In your first year of Natural Hazard Management Course (Level 4), you will learn about hazard processes, societal risks, vulnerabilities, and management strategies for a variety of hazards ranging at different scales along with several physical and human geography modules. Core modules include Changing the World, Global Hazards and Risk, Earth and Environment, People and Places, Researching Environments, Dynamic Earth, Resilient Communities, Geographical Research: Methods and Geomatics.

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