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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/climate-adaptation
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课程名称：非洲气候适应 概述：本课程探讨了气候变化适应在非洲背景下的重要性。非洲被认为是气候变化最脆弱的地区之一。历史上，干旱、洪水、病虫害爆发、沿海风暴以及热浪等气候相关灾害对人们及其生活环境造成了毁灭性影响。这些损害往往会阻碍社会和经济发展的进程，减缓发展目标的实现。气候模型表明，随着全球气候变暖，许多气候危害将加剧。因此，通过适应来增强对气候风险的韧性，对非洲未来的发展至关重要。 本课程将从理论和实践两个方面考察适应力，重点关注对非洲气候适应性发展至关重要的四个领域：水安全、农业与粮食安全、生态系统及其服务，以及韧性城市。 课程大纲： 1. **气候、脆弱性与非洲发展** - 探索非洲的社会经济发展与气候变化之间的联系，预期未来气候变化将如何影响发展轨迹，并介绍气候适应的关键概念。 2. **水安全** - 研究水安全面临的风险及适应水供应变化的方法，尤其关注区域层面的气候适应策略，案例包括莱索托和南非的水安全问题。 3. **农业与粮食安全** - 考察非洲各地区的农业现状及粮食安全，分析气候变化如何影响粮食可获得性、可接触性和利用性，案例涉及毛里求斯的智能农业及纳米比亚的牧民适应策略。 4. **生态系统及生态服务** - 研究生态系统对气候变化和其他人类驱动影响的脆弱性，探讨适应策略，案例来自坦桑尼亚。 5. **城市与城市环境** - 讨论城市中高人口密度带来的气候风险，特别是在非洲的非正式居民区，案例涉及马普托、开普敦和德班的适应措施。 6. **气候变化规划** - 从风险评估转向制定适应计划，探讨有助于识别适应计划关键步骤的规划工具，分析当前脆弱性并实施适应措施，案例涵盖各种社会政治背景下的资源和治理水平。 本课程旨在为学员提供一个全面理解非洲气候适应的重要性及其实施策略的基础。
Name:Climate, Vulnerability and Development in Africa
Description:We start by exploring the linkages between social and economic development in Africa and climate change. We look at the anticipated changes in the future climate of the region and how this could impact on the development trajectory. I cover both contemporary climate risks and future climate change and how those interact with development. I also introduce the key concepts around climate adaptation that this course in based on.
Name:Water Security
Description:We'll start by examining the nature of risks to water security and the approaches to adaptation to changes in water supply - whether it is dealing with greater scarcity or more extreme weather events such as flooding. Water security is a key factor in social and economic development. Responding involves investigating climate adaptation strategies, especially at a regional level, not just at a global scale. The cases this week, presented by experts working on water security issues, are from Lesotho and South Africa.
Name:Agriculture and Food Security
Description:We’ll start off looking at the nature of agriculture across regions in Africa and the current situation of food security. Eradicating poverty through creating food security is a key sustainable development goal. We will analyse food security in terms of availability, access and utilisation - and how each of these aspects can be affected by climate change. I’ll be providing some information about the projected impacts of climate change on agriculture before moving onto look at adaptative strategies. The cases this week offer a rich variety of contextual examples from smart agriculture in Mauritius to changes being made by Namibian livestock farmers.
Name:Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services
Description:This week we’ll examine the mechanisms which make ecosystems vulnerable to climate change and other human-driven impacts. Ecosystems and the services they provide play a significant role for the livelihoods of people living across Africa. We will also look at the observed and projected impacts of the changing climate. We look at adaptation strategies from Tanzania as cases that illustrate some of the important issues.
Name:Cities and the Urban Environment
Description:With the higher concentrations of population in cities, comes a higher exposure to risk from climate change impacts. In African cities, many people live in informal settlements, which make them particularly at risk. Cities have many assets - such as transport, telecommunications, building and critical infrastructure - that are vulnerable to damage from extreme weather events. As cities serve as economic and political hubs, damage or disruption in cities can often have a larger impact on the region or even entire country. Adaptation measures for cities is a complex as there are intersecting issues. Our cases this week look at three cities - Maputo, Cape Town and Durban - which illustrate the adaptations being adopted.
Name:Planning for Climate Change
Description:In this final week, we move from assessing risk to making adaptation plans. There are adaptation planning tools which are especially helpful for identifying the key steps in making an adaptation plan. An early stage of such processes is to assess the current vulnerabilities which for African contexts means we look at the deficits and begin implementing adaptation right away. This can have both an immediate valuable outcome as well as an anticipated positive impact in the future. Later adaptation planning stages involve identifying key stakeholders and building partnerships, as well as mobilising resources to make it happen. Having the resources and organisational capacity is key as seen in our cases from across a variety of socio-political contexts, resources and levels of governance.
This course explores why climate change adaptation is important in the African context. Africa is considered one to be one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Historically, climate-related hazards such as drought, flooding, pest and disease outbreaks, coastal storms and heat waves have had devastating impacts on people and the environment in which they live. Often the damage knocks back progress that has been made in social and economic development, slowing down the achievement of development goals. Climate models suggest that many of these climatic hazards will intensify as the global climate warms. Building resilience to climate risks, through adaptation, is critically important for future development in Africa. The course will examine adaptation in theory and in practice, through a focus on four sectors that are critically important for climate resilient development in Africa: Water Security, Agriculture and Food Security, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services and Resilient Cities.
