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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 2436 | yes | Coursera |
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
Instructors
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