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MCM 124 Coastal Hazards and Management

ND1 levelManagement & Administration13 topics

MCM 124 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concept of coastal hazards management
  2. Coastal environmental hazards
  3. Natural and man-induced hazards
  4. Hazard, disaster, vulnerability and resilience
  5. Coping mechanisms
  6. Effects of cyclones, earthquakes, tsunami and floods
  7. Storm surges, coastal erosion and sea level rise
  8. Technological hazards
  9. Mitigation strategies and carbon footprint reduction
  10. Coastal hazards case studies in Nigeria
  11. Disaster management laws and policies
  12. Disaster response, recovery and risk transfer
  13. Community-based and indigenous disaster management

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Concept of coastal hazards management

Coastal hazards management is the systematic approach to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities and ecosystems to natural hazards such as storms, erosion, and sea‑level rise. Mastering its core ideas—risk assessment, stakeholder participation, adaptation measures, and policy frameworks—helps students analyse how governments and organisations plan and implement protective strategies, a key theme in the NUC…

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