Sessions Topics Learning Outcomes Teaching Strategy Assessment Strategy
Readings
Session – 1
Course Briefing Impacts Of Climate Variability And Changes
1. Students will learn about the course policy
2. Students will be able to identify the potential impacts of climate variability and change on environmental pollution-related (air, water) health effects
3. Students will identify how climate variability affects household welfare and poverty.
4. Students will identify how
economic impacts are exacerbated or dampened by climate change
Power point Lecture by instructor and short documentary
Mid term Session – 2
Suggested Books, Online Resources and Handout (available on Virtual Learning System)
Session – 3 principles and tools of livelihoods analysis
1. Students will be introduced with the livelihoods framework that provides a tool for analyzing people's livelihoods and the impact of specific threats or shocks on livelihood vulnerability.
2. Students will focus on the needs and priorities as identified by the affected population themselves.
Assessments use participatory methods, such as PRA, RRA…
Power point Lecture by instructor
Mid term
Session – 4
Vulnerability indicators for natural systems Development
1. Students will be able to define concepts from a socio-economic perspective: exposure,
vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity.
Power point Lecture by instructor
Mid Term
Session – 5 2. Understand the links between climate change and development, Climate Resilience and
development
Session – 6
Livelihoods approach, components of the different livelihood frameworks Case studies
1. Students will be introduced with the livelihoods framework and explain the core components of the conceptual framework.
2. Students will identify
sustainable livelihood approach for assessing community resilience to climate change
Power point Lecture by instructor and discussion on research article
Mid term
Session –7
Vulnerability And Adaptation
1. Students will understand strategies for adaptation
2. Adaptation and adaptive capacity in the public health context 3. Students will be able to evaluate
Vulnerability assessment, Strategies for reducing
vulnerability and strengthening adaptive capacity
Power point Lecture by instructor and video presentation
Mid term
Session – 8
Session – 9 Livelihoods, Poverty, Human Security And Climate Change
1. Students will be able to analyze climate change within an emerging discourse on human security.
Power point Lecture by instructor and discussion on
Mid term
Session – 10
2. Students will understand two important dimensions of human security that are
directly influenced by climate change:
i. An equity dimension and ii. A connectivity dimension.
3. Students will emphasize on the connectivity dimension of security of individuals and communities is increasingly linked across both space and time
research article, journal paper
Session – 11 Review of Mid Term exam
1. Students will be able to review the main concepts and materials covered in lecture (1-11) Session – 12
Midterm Test
Session – 13
Sustainability and mitigation of climate change: promising technologies and financing
1. Students will identify climate change technology solutions.
2. Will analyze how technology has impacted climate change for better or for worse.
Group Discussion on reading materials provided
Final Exam
Session – 14 1. Critically analyze strategies for
adaptation to the effects of global climate change and propose a
Final Exam
Session – 15
Adaptation and adaptive capacity in the public health context
variety of adaptation strategies that are designed to ensure sustainable livelihoods and the development potential of a range of vulnerable populations.
Power point Lecture by instructor and group discussion
Session – 16 Presentation
1. Students will present a research paper relevant to their interest in the field of climate change adaptation and will be able to justify their thoughts.
Session – 17
Presentation
1. Students will present a research paper relevant to their interest in the field of climate change adaptation and will be able to justify their thoughts
Session – 18
Strategies for climate change mitigation
1. Strategies for mitigation
Greenhouse gas emission trends and global debates on cost-sharing, Mitigation in the short, medium and long term Policies, measures and instruments to mitigate climate change
Power point Lecture by instructor
Final Exam
Session-19
Session – 20 Research Methods In Climate Change And Adaptation
1. Nature of research; Approaches in research – mono-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, inter-
disciplinary and trans-disciplinary;
Methods of research; Steps in
Power point Lecture by instructor
Final Exam
Session – 21 Planning and Tools for Livelihoods research and analysis
research; Scope of research;
Proposal writing, publications;
Data
collection, quality assessment, and analysis; Data presentation; Ethics in research;
Suggested Books, Online Resources and Handout (available on Virtual Learning System)
Session – 22 Social Protection and Livelihoods)
2. Students will gain insight into how SL approaches and analyses link to and interact with various other approaches to reduce poverty (such as people centered, human rights based social protection, etc).
Power point Lecture by instructor
Final Exam
Session – 23
Integrating livelihoods thinking into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation
programming.
3. Students will have a good grasp of how Sustainable Livelihood thinking can inform disaster risk reduction and change adaptation strategies and planning.
Power point Lecture by instructor
Final Exam Suggested Books, Online Resources and Handout (available on Virtual Learning System)
Session – 24
Session – 25
Review for final exam Students will be able to
1. Review the main concepts and materials covered in lecture 17-21 2. Review the main concepts and
materials covered in lecture 22-26
Session – 26
Final exam Students will be able to
1. Demonstrate their level of learning in Epidemiological concepts in lecture 17-26
