COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YUNUS EMRE ÖZER

Offered to

Disaster Administration

Course Objective

This course aims to provide students with a broad perspective on the concepts of resilience and resilient cities. In this context, basic concepts related to resilience and resilient cities will be discussed, as well as issues such as climate, economy, institutional capacity, participation, technology, and critical infrastructure. The main reason for the multidimensional approach of the course is the nature of the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide the theoretical infrastructure for resilience, one of the fundamental issues of disaster management, and to prevent students from having conceptual deficiencies in their dissertation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Yunus Emre Özer, Risk Azaltma Yaklaşımı Çerçevesinde Dirençli Kentler, Ekin Yayınevi, Bursa 2018.
Sezgin Hatipoğlu, S. & Ersavaş Kavanoz, S. (2024), Kentsel Dirençliliğin Farklı Boyutları, Erciyes Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 67, 15-23, doi: 10.18070/erciyesiibd.1345818
Çiğdem Tuğaç, Kentsel Sürdürülebilirlik, Dirençlilik ve Iklim Değişikliğiyle Mücadele Bağlamında Yerel Yönetimler Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme, Çağdaş Yerel Yönetimler, Nisan 2021, Cilt 30, Sayı 2, ss. 21-69.
Yoshiki Yamagata, Hiroshi Maruyama, Urban Resilience A Transformative Approach,
Springer, 2016

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Methods and Techniques
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course
book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yunusemre.ozer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 15.30-16.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes