This one-day awareness-level training course aims to increase awareness of the hazards facing coastal communities and basic strategies to reduce the risk to those hazards. This course provides training on the basic science of, assessment of, and preparedness for natural hazards and risks that uniquely affect coastal communities. Examples of these hazards are short-term events such as high surf, storm surge, and tsunami inundation, or long-term threats from sea level rise and coastal erosion.
As an awareness-level course, this course aims to provide participants a general understanding of the risks associated with coastal hazards, introduce methods of assessing that risk, and describe tools to help prepare for, plan for, and reduce those risks to coastal communities.
Course Modules:
- Coastal Hazards and Risk
- Coastal Hazard Information and Warning Products
- The Coastal Zone and Vulnerability
- Adapting to Coastal Hazards
