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 1 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

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2010	Northam Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External