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MSER 523 - Social and Ethical Dimensions of Resilience Planning (3)

Students learn to identify ethical and social aims of resilience planning in various contexts and to evaluate metrics for alignment with public values. Assigned materials will introduce core concepts and vocabulary in ethical reasoning and how these apply to value commitments in resilience planning: fairness, freedom, safety and security, equal access to information and emergency response, and community well-being. Students complete an individualized project with a stakeholder analysis that includes a vulnerability assessment and a proposed set of ethically sensitive and informed resilience metrics. See Director.