814339 Projects in climate science and transformation

Type
Project course
Semester hours
4
Lecturer (assistant)
Rieder, Harald , Formayer, Herbert , Gaube, Veronika , Diaz-Pines, Eugenio , Winkler, Manuela
Organisation
Offered in
Sommersemester 2025
Languages of instruction
Englisch
Content

This course focuses on local perspectives on transformation, potential key agents of change and potentials and barriers of
transformative development. Potential topics include communal heat burdens and associated impacts, changes in soil water content, water availability or water demand, exposure and vulnerability to alpine hazards, changes in local biodiversity and species composition, local climate impacts on agriculture and forestry and their effects on communities, energy demand and energy production potentials, climate impacts on built infrastructure and infrastructure to mitigate climate impacts.
Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

After successful completion of this course students will have gained an understanding of the local/regional manifestation and impacts of climate change and potential futures depending on progressing warming. Students will be able to understand and specify adaptation and mitigation potentials of communities and corporations, assess consequences of inaction and/or maladaptation and have gained experience in exchange formats with policy makers and stakeholders on the local/regional level. Students will have obtained experience in interdisciplinary work through collaboration on small research projects in a case study region.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.