Course Syllabus
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Semester V (Core)
GEOG-H-CC11-5-Th – Hazard Management – 75 Marks / 3 Credits
Unit I: Concepts
- 1. Approaches to hazard study: Risk perception and vulnerability assessment. Hazard paradigms and continuum [7]
- 2. Responses to hazards: Preparedness, trauma, and aftermath. Resilience, capacity building [7]
- 3. Hazard mapping: Data and geospatial techniques [3]
Unit II: Hazard-specific Study (Focus: West Bengal and India)
- 4. Earthquake: Factors, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
- 5. Landslide: Factors, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
- 6. Land subsidence: Factors, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
- 7. Tropical cyclone: Factors, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
- 8. Riverbank and coastal erosion: Factors, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
- 9. Fire: Factors, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
- 10. Biohazard: Classification, vulnerability, consequences, and management [4]
Previous Year Questions
2025
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : DSCC-11
(Hazard Management)
Full Marks : 75
Category - A
Answer any ten questions (each within 50 words):
2 × 10
1. Distinguish between Hazard and Disaster.
2. What is trauma of hazard?
3. What are the different hazard paradigms?
4. What is rock fall?
5. Define flash flood.
6. What is a fire triangle?
7. What is meant by the epicentre of earthquake?
8. State any two elements of resilience building.
9. What is soil creep?
10. Name two major landslide-prone regions of West Bengal.
11. What do you mean by hazard continuum?
12. State two functions of NDRF.
13. What is anthropogenic hazard?
14. Define Bio-war.
Category - B
Answer any five questions (each within 125 words):
5 × 5
15. What is meant by capacity building in hazard management?
16. What are the main factors responsible for causing earthquakes?
17. Explain the role of mangroves of Sundarban region in minimizing the impacts of cyclones.
18. Suggest mitigation measures of land subsidence.
19. Discuss the geospatial techniques adopted for hazard management.
20. Describe the stages of disaster preparedness and response.
21. State why West Bengal's coastline is prone to erosion.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words):
15 × 2
22. Discuss risk perception and vulnerability assessment as approaches to hazard study. 15
23. State the factors favouring the development of tropical cyclones and describe their consequences on environment and livelihood. 15
24. Explain the processes and management of riverbank erosion in India with suitable examples. 15
25. Define bio-hazards and discuss about the consequences of different bio-hazards. 15
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