Courses Handbook 2010

312142 (v.1) Climate Change and Adaptation 102


Area: Department of Environmental and Aquatic Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Climate monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including modeling and predictions of natural causes/sources and anthropogenic causes/sources; Impacts of climate change on biodiversity, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, human settlements & infrastructure, food production and water resources, and coastal systems; Health/disease issues associated with climate change including social landscape and economies; Adaptation and mitigation mechanisms to overcome barriers to change; sensitivity and adaptive capacity of affected systems; economic, social and environmental sustainability; national and international policy frameworks in a world facing climate change; energy supply and waste management; transport and its infrastructure; agriculture & forestry; sustainable development.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 050999 Environmental Studies not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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