WEL426 Holistic Eco-Social Approaches and Disaster Recovery (8)

Disaster recovery often focuses on the technical, practical and physical aspects of recovery, leaving social, psychological, spiritual and communal aspects under-explored. This subject takes a holistic approach and focuses on the multidimensional nature of recovery from disasters. Students will explore the current environmental context in relation to different types of disasters, including natural disasters and those influenced by environmental degradation and climate change. Students will be encouraged to critically reflect on community context, discourses, policy, governance, service systems, resilience and approaches to disaster recovery from a human services perspective.

Subject Outlines
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No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.

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Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to explain disaster recovery as a multidimensional, human services issue;
  • be able to explain different types of disaster in the context of climate change;
  • be able to analyse how 'sense of place', community context, notions of resilience and social structures impact on disaster recovery;
  • be able to analyse impacts of discourses, policy, service systems and governance on disaster recovery; and
  • be able to apply multidimensional perspectives of human services practice in the context of disaster recovery.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:
  • Locating disaster recovery in the human services domain as a multidimensional issue
  • Contemporary environmental issues: global warming, climate change, adverse weather events
  • Types of disaster, the multidimensional impacts of disaster and approaches to disaster recovery
  • Conceptualising communities: context, social structures, patterns of advantage and disadvantage
  • Impacts of dominant and marginalised discourses on disaster recovery; respecting different ways of being, knowing and doing
  • The significance of 'place' to wellbeing
  • Institutional responses, policy, governance and service system issues in disaster recovery
  • Multidimensional practice issues for human services
  • A framework for multidimensional practice in the context of disaster recovery

Contact

Current Students

For any enquiries about subject selection or course structure please contact Student Central or ask@csu.edu.au or phone on 1800 275 278.

Prospective Students

For further information about Charles Sturt University, or this course offering, please contact info.csu on 1800 275 278 (free call within Australia) or enquire online.

The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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