The course introduces natural and anthropogenic hazards drawing upon key principles of geomorphology, climatology, plate tectonics, oceanography and geophysics. With reference to specific case-studies, it examines hazards and risks related to volcanic and seismic activity, mass movement and karst landscapes, hydro-meteorological phenomena, coastal processes and anthropogenic hazards such as water availability and contamination, regional and global pandemics and fire as well as the impact of climate change on different hazards. The course will adopt a specific emphasis on the spatial analysis of hazards, vulnerability and risk. Students will compare both natural and anthropogenic hazards based on their predictability, magnitude, frequency, scope of impact, controllability, duration and destructive potential and will be exposed to a wide range of hazards affecting Small Island Developing States (SIDS).