ARBE6617
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course provides students with a systematic approach to disaster risk reduction and explores the role and function of private businesses in reducing disaster risk. Students gain an appreciation of the role economic plays in business decisions in a disaster risk and resilience context.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Trimester 2 - 2024
Online
- Trimester 2 - 2024
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): ARBE6608. Students who have successfully completed ARBE6608 are not eligible to enrol in ARBE6617.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Explain how economics can inform disaster risk and resilience
2. Apply economic concepts to deliver the objectives of private businesses in a disaster context
3. Identify the organisational, environmental, and social systems, policies and procedures that influence a given private sector/business organisation for potential hazards.
4. Develop an effective disaster risk reduction plan for a given business context based on identified risk and hazards
Content
Topics will include:
- Economics and disaster resilience
- Basic Micro and Macro Economic principles
- Role of government policy in disaster risk management for businesses
- Business governance and Economics in disaster
- Business continuity
- Recovery financing
- Public-private partnerships in DRR
- Resilience and the private sector
- Disaster risk reduction assessment tools
- Hazard identification and the subsequent management of risk
- Implementation strategies for current UN Frameworks in a business context
Requisite
Students who have completed ARBE6608 cannot enrol in this course.
Assessment items
Quiz: Online Quizzes
Report: Case Study
Proposal / Plan: Business Continuity Plan
Contact hours
Trimester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 1 week(s) starting in week 11
Workshop-2
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 1 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-3
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 1 week(s) starting in week 8
Workshop-4
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 1 week(s) starting in week 4
Trimester 2 - 2024 - Online
Course outline
- ARBE6617 - Trimester 2, 2024 (All) (PDF, 168.9 KB)
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