CLI1200 · Climate change: Impacts and adaptations

Overview

We are transitioning into a new era, where a changing climate presents new challenges for society. You will learn how we can adapt, change and mitigate to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change. You will analyse the risks presented by climate change to biodiversity, food and water security, cities and settlements, health, mental health, society and the economy and pose responses to manage those risks. You will then consider the transitions required for the new normal, and how to empower and enable those transitions. This unit and its complementary unit CLI1100 follow Working groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) Sixth assessment report (AR6). These elective units can be taken together, or as standalone units, and are designed to complement any major across Monash by teaching you the fundamentals of climate change, its impacts and how we can respond over a broad range of disciplines.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Describe escalating climate change impacts on a range of social and environmental domains and develop adaptive responses to them;
2. Assess the risks posed by climate change across a range of sectors and disciplines;
3. Develop solutions to climate risks and strategies to implement and execute these solutions in a variety of contexts;
4. Analyse and evaluate methods for empowering and enabling climate transitions;
5. Demonstrate competence in information technology, data handling, problem solving, communication skills and team work;
6. Communicate climate change information and responses to a variety of stakeholders.

Workload

12 hours per week, consisting of: • 2-hours of pre-class activities. Nominally, these are lectures, but they will be a mix of pre-recorded videos, activities and readings • 2-hours of applied class and • 8-hours of self-directed learning, which may include additional pre-class activities, revision, working on assignments, groupwork, or engaging with further self-directed activities.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.