Infrastructure is vital to health, safety, convenience, and environmental protection. However, natural disasters regularly have profound impacts on our infrastructure systems, impacting our physical wellness and lives, shelters, businesses, community buildings, healthcare, and economies. Whether facing geophysical or climate disasters, infrastructure can influence the damage we face.  In this course, we will:

• Learn what infrastructure is, the basic engineering design principles of infrastructure, and why it is important to daily life

• Identify major types of natural hazards and their impacts

• Explore how crisis communication influences responses from various agencies

• Learn how to communicate the results of a risk assessment to different types of stakeholders, particularly about message tailoring