Western University of Applied Sciences

Semester Programme: Geohazards and Climate Change

Global warming can enhance local extreme weather conditions, which in turn can affect the frequency of geohazards such as landslides, avalanches and flooding. This course provides you with a broad understanding of the interaction between atmospheric and Earth's surface processes that control the occurrence of potentially catastrophic geohazardous events.

During this course, you will:

• learn about basic meteorological processes and their interplay during past, present and future climate change.
• gain a broad understanding of processes that create storms, landslides and wildfires, and how these can affect infrastructure and people.
• achieve knowledge about hydrological systems in urban and rural areas including measures, strategies and plans for run-off management.

The location of the campus offers a great opportunity to visit nearby sites, where you can directly study a broad range of active geohazardous processes, and investigate the results of past geohazard events (including tsunamis, instable bedrock slopes, landslides, avalanches and floods).