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DEM513 - Leadership in Emergency and Disaster Management

2023

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management

Unit Description

This unit addresses the core competencies and the evidence base required to manage Emergency and Disaster Management programs. Students will develop an understanding of the crisis leadership and emergency management principles, the tools necessary to design and implement these programs and gain an overview of the compliance frameworks for Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia- Pacific region. This unit also provides a comprehensive introduction to decision making under uncertainty and complex coordination mechanisms in large scale disaster events. Students will also learn how to communicate crisis and risk in the context of managing epidemics, climate change, natural hazards, biosecurity and and human made hazards.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Critically evaluate crisis and disaster management frameworks to inform evidence-based practice.
2.	Analyse and apply crisis and risk communication principles and good practice to improve crisis response and management outcomes.
3.	Critically evaluate and develop crisis communication strategies to improve response and humanitarian governance outcomes.
4.	Develop the skills to effectively communicate the risk of various hazards from epidemic, climate change, natural hazards and human made hazards.
5.	Integrate knowledge of regional and international practices around basic building blocks of emergency and crisis management systems in the Asia-Pacfic region.
6.	Integrate procedures and mechanisms for disaster coordination.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Seminar Presentations - 10 minutes x 3 (1,200 - 1,500 words per presentation).	40%	1,2,3,4,5,6
2.	Written Reflective Exercise (800 words).	10%	1,2,3,4
3.	Report (3,000 words).	50%	1,2,3,4,5,6

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2023	Semester 2	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR	View
2023	Semester 2	External	External Studies	OLR	View

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