Unit name | Quantifying Climate Risks |
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Unit code | GEOGM0045 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Rachel Flecker |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
Other mandatory units on MSc Climate Change Science and Policy |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
The unit will focus on quantitative evaluation of climate-driven hazards, risk assessment and adaptation policy using a variety of different datasets and methods. These may include high-latitude and polar data that arise from, for example, monitoring and/or modelling sea level rise and the use of remote sensing data or other observation-based datasets to analyse ice loss. The unit will also require students to consider dimensions of exposure and vulnerability in different regions and populations to climate-driven hazards (risk assessment) and to the potential societal opportunities arising from changing conditions (e.g. the opening up of new sea routes from melting ice). This will be then linked to local/regional adaptation policies such as coastal flood management, cultural changes, changes to fishing, managing new access rights, drawn from across the world.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
The unit will be taught through a blended combination of online and, if possible, in-person teaching, including
(50%) Quantitative evaluation of a climate hazard presented as a technical report (ILOs 1-4)
(50%) 2000 word climate change risk assessment that critically evaluates climate risks and adaptation policy for a specific region (ILOs 1-4)
TBC