Environmental Hazard Management Certificate
The Environmental Hazard Management certificate focuses on the relationship between the built environment and extreme events in the natural environment. This concentration prepares students to address natural disasters and technological hazards.
Students with the certificate have worked in:
- Disaster research
- Emergency and hazard planning
- Policy formulation and implementation
The Environmental Hazard Management Certificate is supported by the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center. The certificate is open to all graduate students at Texas A&M University.
Certificate Spotlights
Martin Siwek
Martin Siwek graduated with the certificate along with his Master degree of Urban Planning in 2010. Now he is working as the Disaster Recovery Program Manager with ICF – a forward-thinking consulting company that helps to plan, design, and implement transformative projects related to disaster recovery, energy, social problems and so much more.
Emily Sullivan
Emily Sullivan graduated with the certificate and a master’s in urban planning in 2018. She moved back to her hometown of Arlington, Virginia, and is now working as the environmental planner & conservation agent for her town.
Sara Hamideh
Sara Hamideh received her certificate when she finished her doctoral program in 2015; she is now an assistant professor in Iowa State University. Her research focuses on planning for resilience and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand and inform planning for long-term recovery and resilience with particular attention to social vulnerability.
Curriculum
The Environmental Hazard Management Certificate includes 15 hours of coursework. To finish the program, students must complete a study, paper, or dissertation with a focus on environmental hazards approved by the Environmental Hazards Management Certificate Advisory Council.
| Listing | Class | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PLAN 647 | Disaster Recovery and Hazard Mitigation | 3 |
Select two of the following courses:
| Listing | Class | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PLAN 634 | Environmental Health Policy and Planning | 3 |
| PLAN 635/LAND 635 | Concepts in Ecological Planning and Design | 3 |
| PLAN 641 | Problems of Environmental Planning Administration | 3 |
| PLAN 642 | Planning for Coastal Sustainability and Resiliency | 3 |
| PLAN 649 | Organizational and Community Response to Crises and Disasters | 3 |
| PLAN 650 | Disaster Response Planning | 3 |
| PLAN 689 | Special Topics in… (must be a hazard/disaster related special topic course) | 3 |
Select two of the following courses:
| Listing | Class | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ATMO 629 | Climate Change | 3 |
| COMM 638 | Crisis Communication | 3 |
| COSC 663 | Sustainable Construction | 3 |
| CVEN 610/PHEO 650 | Environmental Risk Assessment | 3 |
| CVEN 624 | Infrastructure Engineering and Management | 3 |
| CVEN 642/BAEN 642 | Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Toward a Sustainable Resource Management | 3 |
| CVEN 657 | Dynamic Loads and Structural Behavior | 3 |
| CVEN 664 | Water Resources Engineering Planning and Management | 3 |
| CVEN 669 | Design of Structures for Hazardous Environmental Loads | 3 |
| CVEN 682 | Environmental Remediation of Contaminated Sites | 3 |
| ESSM 624 | Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change | 3 |
| ESSM 626 | Fire and Natural Resources Management | 3 |
| ESSM 631 | Ecological Restoration of Wetland and Riparian Systems | 3 |
| ESSM 633 | Coastal Processes and Ecosystem Management | 3 |
| ESSM 636 | Wildland Watershed Management | 3 |
| ESSM 660 | Landscape Analysis and Modeling | 3 |
| ESSM 663/SCSC 663 | Applied Spatial Statistics | 3 |
| GEOG 612 | Applied Climatology | 3 |
| GEOG 616 | Urban Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 619 | Human Impact on the Environment | 3 |
| GEOG 621 | Land-Use and Land-Cover Change | 3 |
| GEOG 625/ENTO 625 | Landscape Ecology | 3 |
| GEOG 634/WMHS 601 | Hydrology and Environment | 3 |
| GEOG 660 | Applications in GIS | 3 |
| GEOG 665 | GIS-Based Spatial Analysis and Modeling | 3 |
| GEOG 676 | GIS Programming | 3 |
| GEOL 633 | River Restoration | 3 |
| HLTH 609 | Applied Epidemiology | 3 |
| HLTH 629 | Environmental Health | 3 |
| HLTH 631 | Community and Public Health | 3 |
| HPCH 604 | Social Ecology and Global Health | 3 |
| HPCH 625 | Health of Refugees and Displaced Populations | 3 |
| INTA 635 | Great Famines, War and Disaster Response | 3 |
| MARS 610 | Environmental Law | 3 |
| MARS 625 | GIS Use in Coastal Resources | 3 |
| MARS 626 | Advanced GIS for Coastal Systems | 3 |
| MARS 635 | Environmental Impact Statements and Natural Resource Damage Assessment | 3 |
| MARS 640 | Environmental Administrative Law | 3 |
| MARS 652 | Sustainable Management of Coastal Margins | 3 |
| MARS 655 | Wetlands Management | 3 |
| MARS 675 | Environmental Management Strategies | 3 |
| MARS 676 | Environmental Policy | 3 |
| OCEN 672 | Coastal Engineering | 3 |
| PHEB 605 | Epidemiologic Methods I | 3 |
| PHEB 606 | Survival Analysis | 3 |
| PHEB 607 | Sample Survey Methodology | 3 |
| PHEB 613 | Field Epidemiology Methods | 3 |
| PHEB 614 | Analysis of Longitudinal and Multilevel Data | 3 |
| PHEB 615 | Disaster Epidemiology | 3 |
| PHEB 618 | Spatial Epidemiology | 3 |
| PHEB 624 | Social Epidemiology | 3 |
| PHEB 626 | Occupational And Environmental Epidemiology | 3 |
| PHEO 610 | Toxicology in Public Health | 3 |
| PHEO 611 | Environmental Health Assessment | 3 |
| PHEO 612 | Global Environmental Health | 3 |
| PHEO 613 | Introduction to Environmental Health Disparities | 3 |
| PHEO 614/SCSC 614 | Biodegradation and Bioremediation | 3 |
| PHEO 615 | Environmental Measurement | 3 |
| PHEO 625 | Environmental and Occupational Health Survey Methods | 3 |
| PHEO 639 | Hazardous Materials Management and Compliance | 3 |
| PHEO 650 | Risk Assessment I | 3 |
| PHEO 676 | Environmental Sustainability and Public Health | 3 |
| PHPM 642 | Public Health Emergency Preparedness Policy Issues | 3 |
| PHPM 644 | Texas Training Initiative For Emergency Response (T-Tier) | 3 |
| PLAN 622/LAND 622 | Critical Place Studies: Theory, Research and Practice | 3 |
| PLAN 625 | Geographical Information Systems in Landscape and Urban Planning | 3 |
| PLAN 626 | Advanced GIS in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning | 3 |
| PLAN 629 | Neighborhood Revitalization | 3 |
| RENR 650/ESSM 676 | Leadership, Development and Management of Environmental NGOs | 3 |
| RENR 659 | Ecological Economics | 3 |
| RENR 660/ESSM 672 | Environmental Impact Analysis for Renewable Natural Resources | 3 |
| SENG 660 | Quantitative Risk Analysis | 3 |
| SENG 677 | Fire Protection Engineering | 3 |
| SOCI 617 | Comparative Racial-Ethnic Relations | 3 |
| SOCI 647 | Seminar in Demography and Human Ecology | 3 |
| SOCI 660 | Theories of Race and Ethnic Group Relations | 3 |
| SOCI 661/WGST 661 | Sociology of Gender | 3 |
| SOCI 662 | Racism and Anti-Racism | 3 |
| SOPH 602 | Investigation and Control: Acute Public Health Events | 3 |
Contact Information
Michelle Annette Meyer
Director, Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center; Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
979.845.7813 Email Michelle Annette Meyer