Governance of Environmental Risk
Semester: 2nd | Optional | ECTS: 7.5
Stream: A’
Module leader: Balias George
Module Objectives
Objectives of this course are:
– The understanding of regulatory framework and policies relating to environmental risk.
– The familiarization of students with the notion of risk regulation and its key components such as risk assessment, risk management and risk communication, and
– The discussion of the interplay between science, policy and law.
Course Content
The concept of risk perception. Competing risk regulation paradigms: the technocratic and the deliberative model. The precautionary principle. The cost-benefit analysis. Trade and environmental protection: Science and policy in WTO. Representative cases: GMOs, Chemicals, Plant Protection Products, Climate Change, Electromagnetic Fields, Nanotechnology, Bioethics.
Postgraduate Programme “Applied Geography and Spatial Planning”
Stream Α’
MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL AND HUMAN INDUCED RISKS AND DISASTERS
1st Semester | Winter
- Environmental Risks and Security | C | 7,5
- Natural Processes, Hazards, and Disasters | C | 7,5
- Vulnerability and Risk: Prevention and Preparedness | C | 7,5
- Social and economic impacts of disasters | Ε | 7,5
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | Ε | 7,5
- Environmental Change: Observation and Prediction | Ε | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Emergency Planning | C | 7,5
- Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Planning | C | 7,5
- Coastal Zones Natural Hazards | Ε | 7,5
- Local Sustainable Development: Programmes and Social Resistance | Ε | 7,5
- Geoinformatics for Disaster Management | Ε | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | Ε | 7,5
- Governance of Environmental Risk | Ε | 7,5
- Institutions and Security Policy in European Space | Ε | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
- Placement | E | 10
- Seminar | E | 10
Stream B’
SPATIAL POLICIES AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE
1st Semester | Winter
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | C | 7,5
- Planning and Spatial Development: Theories and Practices | C | 7,5
- Geographies of Globalization | C | 7,5
- Migration Policy and Migratory Flows | Ε | 7,5
- Inequality and Segregation Issues in European Cities | Ε | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Urban Development and Redevelopment Policies | C | 7,5
- Regional Development and Policy | C | 7,5
- Development and Restructuring of Rural Europe | Ε | 7,5
- Local Sustainable Development: Programmes and Social Resistance | Ε | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | Ε | 7,5
- Demographic Trends and Challenges | Ε | 7,5
- Methods of Regional Analysis with Emphasis on Spatial Econometrics | Ε | 7,5
- Transnationalism and Human Geography | Ε | 7,5
- Institutions and Security Policy in European Space | Ε | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
- Placement | E | 10
- Seminar | E | 10
Stream C’
GEOINFORMATICS
1st Semester | Winter
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | C | 7,5
- Applied GIS Based Geographical Analysis | C | 7,5
- Advanced Topics of Remote Sensing | C | 7,5
- Spatial Databases | C | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Research Themes in Geoinformatics | C | 7,5
- Programming for spatial data analysis | E | 7,5
- Geomodeling | E | 7,5
- Geoinformatics for Disaster Management | E | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | E | 7,5
- Methods of Regional Analysis with Emphasis on Spatial Econometrics | E | 7,5
- Advanced Topics of Applied Geoinformation for the Environment | E | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
- Placement | E | 10
- Seminar | E | 10
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