Introduction to Natural Hazard Management is an integrated approach to hazard assessment and risk management. Students gain an overview and basic working knowledge of the processes, methodology and decisions required to undertake natural hazard risk management for six major hazards that threaten Alpine communities in Switzerland (e.g. landslides, rockfall, torrents, floods, snow avalanches.

This course is about the analysis of landslide phenomena, mechanisms, stability and hazard mitigation. The course is focussed on case studies covering major landslide types in the Alps (rock fall, shallow soil slides, rock slides and topples, and deep seated landslides). The course makes use of a new blended e-learning environment and includes compulsory field trips to the study sites.

This course focusses on the principles (fundamentals) and basic concepts of rock mechanics and rock engineering (e.g. tunnelling, rock slope stability).

The course presents the principles of soil mechanics and soil behaviour characteristics and its applications in geotechnical structures and systems. It is based on more descriptive courses on Engineering Geology within the BSc Geol. Program and is a compulsory prerequisite for other courses within the MSc Eng. Geol. program.