Course name Climate Change Responses - RMIT University

Name of academic (owner of the material) Dr. Blanche Verlie

Email address blanche.verlie@rmit.edu.au

Topic Adaptation, Climate Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction, Mitigation

Course website http://www1.rmit.edu.au/courses/050612

Main course information As climate change proceeds, we need to think critically about how we are, and should be, responding. In this course students gain integrated, critical knowledge of climate change responses in theory and practice. Looking at responses from the individual to institutional to international level, students explore the social, cultural, political and psychological aspects of such responses and the practical challenges they pose. Students gain a sophisticated understanding of how responses including adaptation, mitigation, climate-smart development, resilience thinking and carbon sequestration are shaped by existing contexts and demand new capabilities. The course focuses squarely on the “human dimensions” of climate change, including the role of science in policy. Drawing on case studies from around the world, students are required to consider how climate change is understood and framed differently by diverse groups of people and relates to other pressing challenges such as urbanisation. In particular, students explore the conceptual and practical issues climate change poses to urban dwellers and planners, including the complex issues of vulnerability, adaptive capacity, justice and ethics that incremental and transformational responses generate. Students develop an understanding of the barriers to ideal climate change responses and possible strategies for addressing them.

Geographical scale Multiple Scales

Region Examined Global (more than one region)

Language English

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Level of Instruction Post-graduate

Year of publication (last updated max 5 years ago) 2019

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