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Responding to Global Climate Change, 6 ECTS credits.
/Den globala klimatförändringen/
For:
EM
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112
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Area of Education: Social Sceinces
Main field of studies: Energy and Environmental Engineering
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): A
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Aim:
The aim of the course is to advance students understandings of the principal ways to respond to global climate change at global, national and local levels as well as in key sectors for mitigation and adaptation.
After completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- understand the basics of the global climate system to enable a critical reflection on its scientific representations;
- critically evaluate the complex interactions that influence mitigation responses to global climate change and the ability to change future climate pathways;
- understand and critically reflect on drivers and barriers for climate adaptation;
- through insights of the diversity in contexts and applications be able to critically reflect on how government agencies and private actors respond to climate change within key sectors such as transportation, urban planning, water management, and energy infrastructure.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Environemntal Engineering, Environmental Management Strategies Resource Theory, Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Energy Systems
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
The teaching on the course in based on lectures, seminars, lessons, cases, and a study visit.
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Course contents:
Global climate change is one of the most profound challenges facing humanity. Being tightly connected to energy supply, development and justice, responses to climate change virtually concern everybody. Over the last years, more and more actors have started to develop, design and implement responses to the challenges brought about by climate change, often presented as two categories of responses: mitigation and adaptation. Climate mitigation concerns measures that affect the greenhouse gas emissions balance whereas adaptation concerns adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects.
The course falls into the following phases: (i) How do we know what we know about global climate change? (ii) What are the consequences of climate change? (iii) How can we respond to climate change. Blocks (ii) and (iii) will be focused around two cases, one for climate mitigation and one for climate adaptation.
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Course literature:
To be decided
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Examination: |
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Written examination
An individual case reflection
Active participation in seminars, lessons and study visits
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4 ECTS
1 ECTS
1 ECTS
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Course language is English.
Department offering the course: TEMA.
Director of Studies: Erik Glaas
Examiner: Mattias Hjerpe
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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