Making Climate Adaptation Happen: Governing Transformation Strategies for Climate Change (FutureLearn)

Identify why climate change adaptation is important

Adaptive governance is a term used to describe an approach to managing the uncertainty posed by rapid environmental changes in a more responsive manner than traditional modes of governance.

As such, it could be a vital governance tool in the fight against climate change. Being able to nimbly react to fast-changing environmental crises requires certain skill-sets that many governing bodies currently lack.

Create a climate change adaptation plan

Learning alongside experts in governance and adaptation strategies, you’ll examine the science behind climate change, exploring the terminology and facts behind what it is and how we adapt to it.

You’ll summarise the development of the current architecture of global governance for dealing with climate change.

Differentiate climate change adaptation and mitigation policies

Exploring the costs and benefits of climate adaptation versus climate mitigation, you’ll identify the governance and social science theories that can help tackle environmental change, and the role international climate finance can play.

What topics will you cover?

- Climate science and controversies

- Climate adaptation governance

- Climate finance

- Nature-based solutions

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Describe the natural science background of climate impacts and climate adaptation based on scientific facts and terminology.

- Summarise the historical development of the global governance architecture for climate adaptation.

- Identify relevant governance and social science theories in the context of climate adaptation.

- Reflect on the role of international climate finance for climate adaptation.

- Assess climate adaptation governance from an integrated and global vantage point.