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Unit Code: ESM803

Unit Name: Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in the South Pacific

Description: This course will provides an overview of climate change impact assessment and predictions, and key concerns and strategies of adaptation to climate change in the South Pacific. The focus of the course is climate change impacts and the human response to climate change, including efforts to adapt to climate change, as well as efforts to avoid or reduce the negative impacts of climate change. Using IPCC Assessment Reports as the main reference together with recent complementary and contrasting findings, the relevant scientific tools are applied to analyze and discuss the different aspects of climate change. Course covers environmental risks and hazards, vulnerability assessment, climate impact causation, impact assessment methods, sector and regional climate change impact predictions, adaptation strategies, and adaptation policy frameworks. The course will also strengthens the PG Diploma student\'s ability to involve in further climate change related work such as the writing of a thesis; disseminate and critique literature on impacts of an adaptation to climate change; develop and judge measures to adapt to climate change; evaluate and assess arguments on impacts and adaptation using relevant scholarly sources and methods; as well as the student\'s familiarity with impact assessment and vulnerability assessment methods.

Learning Target Outcomes:

Prerequisite: Minimum GPA of 3.0 in any undergraduate degree

Prerequisite Sentence: None

Credit Point: 30

Offered In: Semester 2