ENS5320 Climate change risk, resilience and security

This unit examines climate change risk and its relationship to climate security – a nexus between energy, food, water and human security related to the impacts of climate change. The unit pays special attention to developing knowledge for enhancing climate resilience, that is, the ability to cope with and reduce the risks of climate change.

Fundamental knowledge related to the science of climate change and climate risk, and solutions to improve resilience in human and natural systems via adaptation and mitigation, are explored.

The unit will develop skills in applying fundamental scientific knowledge and data for examining contemporary climate change issues, including climate-related disasters and the impacts of climate trends. There is a focus on skills enhancement for robust decision-making for complex problems that contain deep uncertainty; and for problems that have a strong intersection between biophysical and human systems.

You will gain key knowledge of: likely future climate changes at the regional and global scale; the development of storylines of future climates; the utility and limitations of climate models; vulnerability assessment of climate change impacts; relationships between climate impacts and security; and mitigation and adaptation responses that promote resilience to climate change, including policy and regulatory frameworks.