Overview
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Offerings
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-2021
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-2021
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2022-ONGOING
Requisites
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Enrolment rules
Enrolment in a graduate-level (AQF level 8 or 9) course.
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
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Apply knowledge of the process of adaptation in ecosystems and societies to new situations, as a basis for developing sound adaptation planning.
2.
Understand and correctly apply the terminology of climate change adaptation in order to analyse adaptation problems.
3.
Distinguish successful adaptation from maladaptation to climate change in ecosystems and societies through critical analysis and application of adaptation concepts.
4.
Interpret and synthesize information from the primary research literature to develop new ideas and methods to address climate change adaptation problems.
5.
Demonstrate familiarity with tools for climate change adaptation and adaptation planning.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:In this unit we aim to give you a more fundamental appreciation of how adaptation occurs in ecosystems and societies, using examples and case studies. By understanding how adaptation occurs, both with and without intervention, it becomes possible to plan for, and design workable approaches to climate change adaptation. The unit will also describe principles of effective climate change adaptation and strategies for adaptation and introduce you to tools that may be used in adaptation.
This unit regards the scientific evidence of climate change as fact. The unit will deal with both climate change adaptation that occurs without human intervention, and the actions humans can take to facilitate adaptation in both ecosystems and societies. It will also consider maladaptation, which are actions taken that make vulnerability to the impacts of climate change worse rather than better. This unit will not describe how climate change occurs, how climate change models are developed or cover debates about whether climate change is occurring or not. Nor will it cover climate change mitigation or abatement methods or strategies. These topics are covered in other units.