814339 Projects in climate science and transformation (in Eng.)

Art
Projekt
Semesterstunden
4
Vortragende/r (Mitwirkende/r)
Rieder, Harald , Formayer, Herbert , Gaube, Veronika , Diaz-Pines, Eugenio , Winkler, Manuela
Organisation
Angeboten im Semester
Sommersemester 2025
Unterrichts-/ Lehrsprachen
Englisch
Lehrinhalt

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.
Lehrziel

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.
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