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LB5410 - Building Economic Resilience

Credit points: 3
Year: 2023
Student Contribution Band: Band 4
Administered by: College of Business, Law & Governance

This subject aims to propose frameworks and methods of economic inquiry for the analysis of disasters and disruptions. This subject applies the concept of economic resilience to explore continuous economic growth within the context of disaster management. The main topics covered in this subject are basic micro and macroeconomic principles, market failures, economics resilience (inherent and adaptive responses to disasters), measure of improving economic resilience, the role of government policy in disaster risk management, resilient governance and sustainable industries, innovation and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and community resilience and the role of NGOs.

Learning Outcomes

  • identify and analyse basic macro and micro economic principles to inform responses to disasters;
  • apply economic concepts to develop risk reduction strategies and build economic resilience;
  • critically evaluate the role of government and NGOs in disaster risk management and nurturing of sustainable industries.

Subject Assessment

  • Written > Briefing paper - (30%) - Individual
  • Oral > Guided discussion - (40%) - Group
  • Participation > Online participation - (30%) - Individual.
Assumed
Knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Management

Availabilities

Townsville, Trimester 2, Intensive
Census Date 22-Jun-2023
Face to face teaching (2023 teaching dates to be advised)
Coordinator: Assoc. Professor Taha Chaiechi
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 30 hours seminars
  • 20 hours online activity - Recordings, online activities and self-directed learning
  • assessment and self-directed study

Trimester 3, External
Census Date 05-Oct-2023
Coordinator: Assoc. Professor Taha Chaiechi
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 30 hours online activity - Recordings, online activities & self-directed learning
  • 10 hours online Tutorials - Online collaborate sessions
  • assessment and self-directed study

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.