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KNT 511 - Natural Disaster and Risk Management in Urban Transformation Project

Graduate Education Institute · Urbanism and Urban Transformation · Doctorate

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Serhat ANIKTAR

Course Objective

Almost all of the existing and planned residential areas in our country have various natural disaster dangers. Each separate place is at the same time a separate danger and even dangerous. It is not possible to achieve a sustainable and sustainable planning and implementation that does not take into account their existence and effectiveness.   For this reason, it is inevitable to learn about natural disasters, to identify visible and probable activities, to investigate the factors that cause the risks, and to live in the framework of this information obtained from planning and applications.

Course Content

In order to achieve the aim determined by the newly enacted Urban Transformation Law (Law No. 6306 on the Transformation of Areas under Disaster Relief) in our country, it is firstly necessary that all related units are coordinated. In order to reduce the earthquake risk of the buildings, the work done up to now is mostly to determine the earthquake performances of the buildings in different details. In addition, various improvement applications are being tried to be established. Instead, a more rational approach; the central or local government should first establish solution alternatives taking into account the social, psychological, administrative, legal and financial conditions involved in the problem and then evaluate these alternatives within the scope of knowledge and capacity of earth sciences, urban planning and civil engineering.

Required Resources

Lecture notes.

Recommended Resources

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Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Information on reducing the risk of buildings earthquake
  2. Law No. 6306 on the Conversion of Areas Under Disaster Relief
  3. try to create different improvement applications

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionExercise and PracticePresentationSelf study

Assessment & Evaluation

Homework

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)15575
Out of Class Study Period5525
Midterm12020
Quiz000
Assignment11717
Practice000
Final15050

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1IntroductionResearch
2Determination of natural disaster hazards affecting citiesResearch
3Earthquake HazardResearch
4Damability of constructionsResearch
5Infrastructure vulnerabilityResearch
6Production lossesResearch
7Urban and administrative capacity buildingResearch
8MidtermMidterm
9Disaster risk, prevention or sharingResearch
10Natural disaster prevention mapsResearch
11Determination of the risk indicator coefficientResearch
12Short, medium and long term loss reduction studiesResearch
13Protecting historic structures against disastersResearch
14Legal and administrative issues related to disasters in terms of urban transformationResearch
15Natural disaster insuranceResearch
16Final examFinal exam