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Understanding climate change basics

Topic outline

  • Why another course on climate change?

    (Approximately  25 minutes of on-screen time = 1 hours 15 minutes of student workload hours)

    • What is causing climate change?
    • What is vulnerability?
    • What is susceptibility?
    • What is resilience?
    • How can we differentiate an adaptation action from mitigation action?
    • What is climate governance?
    • What is climate financing?

    Though most water professionals understand various aspects of climate change there is no common understanding of all the aforementioned basic aspects. There are a plenty of misconceptions about climate change and its impacts which can easily misled general public, professionals, as well as prospective students of IHE-Delft.