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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesCoursera

    The Syllabus

    Video
    • Welcome to the course
    Readings
    • Course organization
    • About the course certificate
    • Solving doubts and technical issues
    • FAQs - General topics
    • FAQs - Assessments and Certificate

    Videos
    • Introduction to the week
    • Climate change as a natural and anthropogenic phenomena
    • The multiple evidences of climate change
    • Indigenous peoples and local communities: who, what, where
    • Local knowledge systems
    • Differences and synergies between Local Ecological Knowledge and scientific knowledge
    • The potential of local knowledge to understand climate change

    Readings
    • Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach
    • Climate Change 2014. Synthesis Report. Summary for Policymakers
    • Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change
    • Observations of climate change among subsistence-oriented communities around the world
    • A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
    • Local indicators of climate change: the potential contribution of local knowledge to climate research
    • Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report
    Practice Exercise
    • Quiz 1

    Videos
    • Introduction to the week
    • Introduction: Understanding climate change impacts on indigenous communities
    • Climate change impacts on physical systems and their consequences for Indigenous People and Local Communities
    • Climate change impacts on the biological system: local perceptions of changes in living organisms
    • Climate change impacts on indigenous resource management systems
    • Climate change impacts on indigenous health and well being
    Readings
    • Indigenous peoples and climate change
    • Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer
    • The impact of climate change on the well-being and lifestyle of a First Nation community in the western James Bay region
    • The impacts of climate change on human health in the United States
    • An IPCC Special Report on ocean and cryosphere in changing climate
    • An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
    Practice Exercise
    • Quiz 2

    Videos
    • Introduction to the week
    • Introduction 1/2: Understanding adaptation to climate change
    • Introduction 2/2: From the local to the global: Classifying local responses to climate change
    • Adaptation strategies, example 1/3: Mobility as adaptation in pastoral systems
    • Adaptation strategies, example 2/3: Diversification as adaptation in agricultural systems
    • Adaptation strategies, example 3/3: Learning from the past: Multilevel adaptation to drought in early modern Spain
    • Indigenous Peoples’ limits and barriers to climate change adaptation
    • Maladaptation: When adaptation does not work
    • Community-based monitoring with Indigenous peoples and community organisations
    • IPLC advocacy and demands in global climate change and biodiversity policy agendas (2022)
    Readings
    • Maladaptation: When Adaptation to Climate Change Goes Very Wrong
    • Adaptation to Environmental Change: Contributions of a Resilience Framework
    • The role of indigenous peoples in combatin climate change
    • Maladaptation
    • Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change
    • Landscape sustainability science in the drylands: mobility, rangelands and livelihoods
    • Transitions: Pastoralists Living with Change
    • Climate change and pastoralism: impacts, consequences and adaptation
    • How much climate change can pastoral livelihoods tolerate? Modeling rangeland use and evaluating risk
    • Prudent Peasantries: Multilevel Adaptation to Drought in Early Modern Spain (1600-1715)
    Practice Exercise
    • Quiz 3

    Videos
    • Introduction to the week
    • The contribution of Indigenous and local knowledge
    • The classification system
    • A Standard Protocol. Part 1
    • A Standard Protocol. Part 2
    • The use of Citizen Science. OpenTEK (OpenPlatform for Traditional Ecological Knowledge)
    • Exploring OpenTEK (Open platform for Traditional Ecological Knowledge)
    Readings
    • A collaborative approach to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into global climate change research
    • Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review
    • Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms
    • Citizen science and sustainability transitions
    Practice Exercise
    • Quiz 4

    Videos
    • Introduction to the week
    • A historical view of global governance for climate 1/2
    • A historical view of global governance for climate 2/2
    • Global climate governance: Intergovernmental regime
    • Global climate governance: transnational networks, community engagement, and other actors
    • Climate justice: IPLC and Climate Change impacts paradox
    • Climate change interventions, conflicts and governance
    • The impact of climate change policies in Protected Areas – India
    Readings
    • Climate Governance Beyond the State
    • Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
    • Pursuing an Indigenous Platform: Exploring Opportunities and Constraints for Indigenous Participation in the UNFCCC
    • The multi‐level system of global climate governance–the model and its current state
    • Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports
    • The emerging geographies of climate justice
    • Towards Convivial Conservation
    • Conservation and Displacement: An Overview
    Practice Exercise
    • Quiz 5

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