GP 513: Natural Hazards and Environmental Geophysics

Syllabus​

Introduction to Natural hazards – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, avalanches, floods, cyclones, mine fire and blow out; Causes, risk and mitigation of natural hazards; Mechanics of recent and historical earthquakes, seismic risk and hazard, earthquake prediction, types of volcanism, styles of eruption, forecasting and mitigation of volcano hazard, Tsunami – causes and prediction, prediction and prevention of landslides, landslide zonation and risk assessment, Flood hazard and mitigation, geological hazards – vulnerability and risk assessment using GIS, Environmental hazards – Nuclear waste, ground water pollution, Important case studies of natural hazards.

Texts/References

  • E.Byrant, Natural Hazards, Cambridge, 2005
  • A.Patrick, Natural disasters, McGraw Hill, 2003
  • Valdiya, K.S., Coping with natural hazards : Indian context, Orient Longman, Hyderbad, 2004
  • P.V.Sharma, Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Cambridge,2004
  • K.Smith and R.Ward, Floods: Physical processes and human impacts, J. Wiley and Sons, 1998
  • Landslides and their control, Elsevier Scientific Pub., Amsterdam, 1982
  • Erika Jahn, Landslides and their stabilization, Springer-Verlag, 1981.