SLE740 - Climate Change, Adaptation and Mitigation
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 2 x 1 hour lectures per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 1 hour scheduled online practical experience (workshop) per week. |
Content
This unit will provide a broad introduction to climate change, climate change adaptation and mitigation. These topics will be explored from a scientific, societal and policy perspective. The Unit draws on case studies and examples from around the world to look at climate change in a variety of contexts, such as its implications for the natural resource base, sustainable food production, integrated land and water management, common law liability, corporate social responsibility and infrastructure, amongst others.
The unit will develop the knowledge and understanding required by professionals involved in natural resource management (including agriculture and food production, forest and resource management), spatial and economic planning, policy development, or anyone with an interest in climate change, to develop appropriate responses to the risks and opportunities posed by a changing climate.
Some of the topics covered include: climate science (global climate modelling, regional downscaling of projections, uncertainty); climate impacts (on socio-economic and environmental systems, disproportionate impacts according to gender and socio-economic status), climate policy (including mitigation, decision-making, risk frameworks, uncertainty, no-regret policies); adaptation (in urban and regional/rural systems, adaptive capacity and its assessment); and development of integrated (adaptation + mitigation) climate action plans and policies, and systems science (regional systems, resilience theory, adaptive capacity).
Unit Fee Information
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Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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