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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2436yesCoursera

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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