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CURRICULAR UNIT - CATASTROPHE PSYCOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560002

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Promote theoretical and practical knowledge and training of the basic concepts of psychology, namely of critical incidents, crisis situations and disasters areas

Understand the growing sensitivity of society relating to security and the increased demands in the field of psychology.

Realize how natural, technological and socio-political disasters affect the daily lives of lay people, but also of the operational technicians in the emergency situations.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Human behaviour in disaster scenarios
  • 3. Psychological reactions to catastrophe
  • 4. Psychosocial intervention in crisis
  • 5. Psychological First Aid
  • 6. Occupational Health of emergency professionals
  • 7. Role of the leader in disaster scenarios
  • 8. Psychological resilience

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FOREST MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560001

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - Acquire basic notions of forest management;
  • - Recognize the importance of preventive forestry actions in reducing the number of fires and the burnt area;
  • - Know the forest management instruments;
  • - Identification of the objectives of the different levels of Forest Conservation Planning against Fires;
  • - Identification of the basic networks for the Conservation of the Forest Against Fires and their importance in preventing and fighting forest fires;
  • - Acquire knowledge of information management in the conservation of the forest;
  • - Acquire knowledge of structure and organization of actions to fight forest fires;
  • - Acquire basics of recovery of burnt areas.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction (concepts)

  • 1.1 Forest management and conservation
  • 1.2 Planning for forest conservation against fires
  • 1.3 Organizing forest fire fighting
  • 1.4 Information management

2. Basic notions of forestry

3. Preventive forestry actions

4. Forest management instruments

5. Forest conservation planning against fires

6. Forest conservation networks against fires

7. Forest fire information management

  • 7.1 Information management of DFCI networks
  • 7.2 Management of forest fire data information
  • 7.3 Management of information on operational activity
  • 7.4 Analysis and publication of information
  • 7.5 Public information management

8. Combat actions

  • 8.1 Combat actions
  • 8.2 Basic behaviours
  • 8.3 Operational leadership
  • 8.4 Risk management processes
  • 8.5 Actions to combat and defend people and property
  • 8.6 Operations planning
  • 8.7 Operational logistics

9. Recovery of burnt areas


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - EXTREME EVENTS IN WATERSHEDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560003

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - Provide training expertise in the field of Extremes Phenomena, specifically floods and droughts, with high impact in watersheds and in the human activities related to them.
  • - Identify and implement methods of analysis: fundaments of statistics, hydraulics, hydrology, risk analysis
  • - Limit prevention actions related to the phenomena
  • - Determine the risk associated to each type of phenomena and introducing the planning actions and management of that risk
  • - Promote the actions considering the Restraints and Guidelines of the National and European Legislation
  • - Know the incidence of these phenomena in national territory (mainland and islands), European and international, together with the strategies to face the specific vulnerabilities

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Introduction to Hydrology
  • 2. Introduction to Statistics
  • 3. Introduction to flow in Hydraulics
  • 4. Flood analysis
  • 5. Drought analysis
  • 6. Extreme phenomena highlighted by the anthropic action
  • 7. Risk analysis

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PREVENTION POLICIES AND SPATIAL PLANNING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560004

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Understanding the need of the application of prevention policies in civil protection activities;

Develop skills of analysis and application of prevention policies at national, regional and local levels, with special emphasis on population safety, heritage and environment;

Acquire an overview of the activities of civil protection in relation to time, space and the characteristics of the phenomena inducing.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Concept of civil protection
  • 2. Risks in the world and in Portugal
  • 3. Occurrences, calamity and catastrophe
  • 4. The disaster cycle
  • 5. Early warning systems
  • 6. Monitoring systems
  • 7. The emergence and prevention policies
  • 8. Time, space and magnitude in civil protection
  • 9. International Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction
  • 10. Risk, vulnerability, susceptibility and hazard
  • 11. Legislative framework
  • 12. Structural and non-structural preventive measure;
  • 13. Spatial Planning

13.1. Basic concepts
13.2. Fundamental variables in spatial planning
13.3. PMOT Analysis in the perspective of Civil Protection

  • 14. Regulation and prevention policies
  • 15. Training and public awareness between preparedness and prevention
  • 16. Prevention at local, regional and national levels
  • 17. Cost-benefit analysis
  • 18. Prevention policies for natural and technological risks

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - SERIOUS ACCIDENT PREVENTION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560005

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - Framing the treatment of major accidents in a Risk Management process
  • - Knowing the historical accidents that led to the international and national legal framework;
  • - Meet the legal framework of the Prevention of Serious Accidents involving dangerous substances;
  • - Distinguish the differences between institutions of higher and lower level of hazard and respective obligations and responsibilities of stakeholders (operator and authorities);
  • - Know and use methods of analysis and risk assessment;
  • - Identify and implement measures, instruments and mechanisms to mitigate consequences;
  • - Meet methodology for risk communication, awareness and information;
  • - Analyze and interpret case studies;
  • - Produce the minimum information that studies of Safety Report, reporting and evaluation of compatibility must contain.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Framework of the discipline

2. Risk Management Process

  • 2.1. Risk assessment
  • 2.2. Risk control

3. Methods of Risk Assessment

  • 3.1. Fire risk assessment
  • 3.2. Explosive atmospheres risk assessment
  • 3.3. Seveso establishments risk assessment
  • 3.4. Practical exercises

4. Legislation

  • 4.1. Transport of dangerous substances
  • 4.2. Seveso establishments
  • 4.3. case studies

5. Analysis of content and Development Document

  • 5.1. Prevention Policy Major Accident
  • 5.2. Safety Management System
  • 5.3. Compatibility Assessment Location
  • 5.4. Analysis of case studies

6. Institutions and actors with Responsibility in Preventing Serious Accidents

7. Risk communication and awareness


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 560006

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Course addresses the issues related to the management of emergencies or disasters, taking into account the organization of civil protection, the planning and response system, the information management, in order to provide knowledge which enables the establishment of strategic civil protection programmes in the different territorial levels and methods for the management of disaster. The competencies are as follows:

  • - Explain the civil protection national system;
  • - Identify situations of warning, contingency and disaster;
  • - Understand the National Authority Civil Protection organic;
  • - Understand the municipal civil protection organization;
  • - Understand the basics of integrated protection and relief operations (SIOPS);
  • - Understand the concepts of command and control;
  • - Understand the concepts, principles and techniques of the planning process;
  • - Understand the difference between emergency management and operational management;
  • - Differentiate hazard, vulnerability and risk;
  • - Identify the hazards of natural and anthropogenic origin;
  • - Understand the historical aspects that led to the concepts of civil defense, civil protection and emergency management;
  • - Explain the emergency management process based on the model of the cycle;
  • - Characterize the four phases of emergency management cycle;
  • - Understand the types of risks and the principles of risk management;
  • - Characterize the programs and strategic plans for civil protection;
  • - Know the kind of civil protection exercises and your assessment.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  1. National System for Civil Protection
  2. Civil Protection National Authority
  3. Municipal Civil Protection organization
  4. Operational definitions
  5. Incident, accident, major accident, catastrophe and disaster
  6. Integrated System for Protection and Relief Operations
  7. Management System for Operations
  8. Information management
  9. Principles of disaster management (Enrico Quarantelli)
  10. Concepts, techniques and planning methods
  11. General principles of planning (Enrico Quarantelli)
  12. Emergency plans for civil protection
  13. Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk
  14. Fundamentals of emergency management
  15. Model of the Cycle of Emergency Management
  16. Pillars of Emergency Management
  17. Theory of qualitative differences between emergencies (Enrico Quarantelli)
  18. Myths associated with emergencies
  19. Theory of Management (Henri Fayol)
  20. Emergency Management Programs
  21. Strategic plans for emergency management
  22. Model of the strategic planning process
  23. Civil protection exercises and their evaluation
  24. Typologies and risk management
  25. Risk analysis
  26. Strategies for prevention/mitigation
  27. Preparation strategies
  28. Response strategies
  29. Strategies for rehabilitation/recovery
  30. Management of emergency’s

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PHYSICAL SAFETY IN BUILDINGS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 560006

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - To recognize the strategic value of physical security (safety) for sustainability of human activities in the built environment;
  • - To know the Self-protection measures for buildings and enclosures within the physical security;
  • - To develop Measures of Self-protection for buildings and enclosures, taking into account the characterization of natural, technological or mixed risks that may affect the safety of persons, property or environment, in built environment, as well as the progressive concentration of population in large cities with new requirements for physical security in urban spaces, in a multi-risk approach and of mixed-use;
  • - To know the methods of implementing and monitoring Self-protection measures for buildings and enclosures;
  • - To know the methods for analysis of fire hazards in buildings and urban areas, including the Urban Past;
  • - To analyse concrete situations and case studies.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Physical Security (Safety) in Constructed Spaces

  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Strategic value

2. Self-protection measures in buildings and precincts

  • 2.1. Legal status of SCIE (RJSCIE)
  • 2.1.1 General provisions
  • 2.1.2. Characterization of buildings and facilities
  • 2.1.3. Conditions of SCIE
  • 2.1.4. Administrative offense proceedings
  • 2.1.5. Final and transitional provisions
  • 2.2 Ordinances and Orders complementing RJSCIE
  • 2.3. Regulation technician SCIE (RTSCIE)
  • 2.3.1. Purpose and definitions
  • 2.3.2. General conditions for self-protection
  • 2.3.3. Specific conditions for self-protection
  • 2.4. Case Study

3. Fire Risk Analysis

  • 3.1. Methodologies for Risk Analysis of Urban Fire
  • 3.1.1. Methodologies for risk analysis
  • 3.1.2. Application to Urban Ancients
  • 3.2. Case Study

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RISKS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 560008

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The program of the course brings together the key themes for thorough training of the technicians involved in the planning management resources, risk mitigation and prevention of major accidents or disasters related to geological hazard and landslides in particular.

Presents the fundamental concepts in the field of ​​civil protection risks from the knowledge of risks as a whole, as if for their application in particular in the area of ​​geomorphological hazards.

Awareness of Students' to the techniques of field observation;

Application of methodologies for calculating risk-based records of occurrence in Portugal.

The main Geological Risks associated with endogenous and exogenous factors, namely

  • - Geomorphological risks - Basic notions, typology, activity and causes of slope movements and apprehension of different methods and techniques of evaluation and validation.
  • - Seismic Risks - Seismic Hazard in Portugal, as well as assess the impact of possible Seismic episodes, and, thereafter, build scenarios to support Urban Planning, Prevention and Responses to episodes of this nature.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I - Dynamics of land movement. General concepts

  • 1. Introductory aspects: basic concepts of Dynamic Geomorphology; the understanding of the manifestations of geomorphological instability in the perspectives of Geomorphology and Engineering perspectives.
  • 2. Basic of soil mechanics (Main tests)
  • 3. Terms related to hazard and risk: hazard, intensity, elements at risk, vulnerability, potential damage, specific risk, total risk.

II - Typology of structural movements - causes and effects

  • 1. The terminology: mass movement, terrain movement, landslide, strand movement
  • 2. The variety and criteria for classifying the slope movements
  • 3. Description of the causes: lithological, tectonic, morphological, hydrological, meteorological factors, land use and anthropic factors
  • 4. Description of the effects: descriptive parameters: type of movement (landslide; balancing; sliding; lateral expansion; drained)
  • 5. The types of movements according to the classification of the Working Party on World Landslide Inventory
  • 6. State of activity
  • 7. Materials involved
  • 8. Direction of movement
  • 9. Estimated speed
  • 10. Potentially unstable area

III - Seismicity and shaking measures

  • 1. Earthquakes genesis
  • 2. Historical seismicity in Portugal
  • 3. Seismogenic zones and seismic zoning
  • 4. scales of Magnitude intensity and buildings damage
  • 5. Intensities and Accelerations
  • 6. seismic waves & Attenuation

IV - Seismicity Representation and risk indications

  • 1. Return periods and Probabilities of Occurrence
  • 2. Hazard, Vulnerability and Earthquakes Risk
  • 3. Representation and Communication of Seismic risk

V - Open Classroom

  • 1. theme Presentation chosen by a guest speaker
  • 2. The seismic crisis in Central Italy 2016
  • 3. The Seismic Risk in Portugal: Actions and Legislation

VI - Losses and Damages calculation

  • 1. Vulnerability and fragility
  • 2. buildings damage calculation
  • 3. Seismic Scenarios and Simulation

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - COASTAL GEODIVERSITY AND SAFETY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 560009

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - To know the physical, chemical and biological processes in the interface ocean-continent areas;
  • - To use data from multiple sources in the analysis of the natural process and anthropic impacts;
  • - To relate environmental changes and extreme events with the global evolution of natural systems;
  • - To analyze study-cases by identifying critical factors;
  • - To recognize the strategic value of the habitats and ecosystems in the transition areas for the support of human activity;
  • - To identify areas in risk and threats to the stability of the coastal structures, resources preservation and safety of people and property;
  • - To characterize the impacts of events and to propose adequate measures for risk prevention and mitigation;
  • - To make reports of specific situations;
  • - To effect SWOT analysis for the integrated management of coastal areas;
  • - To propose adequate solutions of planning and ordainment for the sustainable development of coastal area.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  •  1. Introduction
  •  2. Elements of Geology
  •  3. Modeling agents and sedimentation
  •  4. Seawater properties
  •  5. Ocean Currents
  •  6. Sea Agitation
  •  7. Tides
  •  8. Littoral and coastal zone evolution
  •  9. Marine Ecology
  • 10. Biological productivity
  • 11. Anthropic impacts
  • 12. Conflicts and alternative strategies
  • 13. Risk analysis
  • 14. Case studies

 

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - RISK CARTOGRAPHY ANALYSIS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 560010

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This course unit aims to provide students with sufficient knowledge of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with sufficient knowledge to explore geographic information data available online, using QGIS software, as well as to learn how to make and interpret hazard and risk maps.

Students should develop the following skills:

  • - Master the specific vocabulary;
  • - Know the main coordinate systems used in national mapping;
  • - Identify the producers of national mapping and know where to get information and in what formats;
  • - Understand the difference between raster and vector information;
  • - Build and provide thematic maps;
  • - Carry out the acquisition, editing and updating of geographical entities;
  • - be familiar with operators and methods of research data;
  • - Know the steps of drawing up hazard mapping.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Geographic information systems

  •   1.1. Differences between CAD and GIS - MNC \ MNT
  •   1.2. Components of a GIS
  •   1.3. Implementation of a Municipal GIS
  •   1.4. Introduction to ArcGis 9.3

2. Data models

  •   2.1. Geographic, Matrix, Vector, and TIN Models
  •   2.2. Advantages and disadvantages of the various Models
  •   2.3. Conversion between Models

3. Coordinate systems

  •   3.1. Horizontal datum
  •   3.2. Vertical datum
  •   3.3. Projections
  •   3.4. Assign coordinate systems to a theme in ArcGis 9.3
  •   3.5. Coordinate transformation in ArcGis 9.3

4. Structuring information

  •   4.1. Metadata
  •   4.2. Geometries
  •   4.3. Data formats
  •   4.4. Geodatabase
  •   4.5. External databases

5. Data acquisition

  •   5.1. Georeferencing
  •   5.2. Manual scanning
  •   5.3. Importing files

6. Editing the cartographic base

  •   6.1. Mistakes and GIS
  •   6.2. Creation and analysis of topological information

7. Spatial analysis of risk cartography

  •   7.1. Data selection and relationship methods
  •   7.2. Overlapping operations, aggregation / disaggregation, modification, extraction,

and conversion

  •     7.3. Proximity operations

 

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - RESEARCH METHODS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560011

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The aims for students acquire skills in of research methodologies, including:

  • - Organize a research process;
  • - Choose scientific methods appropriate to the research desired;
  • - Analyse real-world problems and develop formulations and solutions supported by scientific methods;
  • - Prepare the report (dissertation) research
  • - Present the results in the investigation

And also, acquire skills in statistical analysis of data, including:

  • - Describe statistical principles;
  • - Apply statistical methods;
  • - Formulate and test hypotheses;
  • - Use a statistical analysis tool;
  • - Develop analytical skills;
  • - apply statistical methodsCritically in different contexts;
  • - Develop the capacity of processing and analysis data;
  • - to Compare different approaches.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction

  • 1.1. the scientific method
  • 1.2. the steps of the research
  • 1.3. theories, models and paradigms
  • 1.4. applied research

2. research project

  • 2.1. phases of the research project
  • 2.2. issues and research objectives
  • 2.3. research methodology

3. Descriptive statistics

  • 3.1. population and sample, sampling techniques
  • 3.2. important tools for producing surveys / interviews
  • 3.3. Measurement scales: nominal, ordinal and numerical (continuous and discrete)
  • 3.4. Synthesis of data in tables and graphs
  • 3.5. measures of central tendency, position and dispersion
  • 3.6. Relationship between variables: correlation and linear regression
  • 3.7. notion of probability. Distribution

4. statistics Inferential

  • 4.1. estimation and modeling
  • 4.2. Hypothesis, parametric and non-parametric tests
  • 4.3. Analysis of Variance
  • 4.4. Contingency tables. Chi-square test

5. Research report

  • 5.1. structure, organization and content of the report
  • 5.2. references

6. Oral presentation of research

7. Ethical aspects of research awareness


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - DISSERTATION OR PROJECT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – Annual
Código UC nº 560012

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Dissertation of a scientific or more applied nature aims to foster the capacity for initiative, autonomy in research and in the application of acquired knowledge, decision and work organization by the student.

The Dissertation should, preferably, be guided by objectives and have an interdisciplinary character.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

The program is defined according to the advisor and type of theme, and is developed during the 2nd semester, with the tutorial load distributed according to the defined by the advisor.