Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities
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Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities at Coursera Overview
Duration | 14 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities at Coursera Course details
- In this course, you will:
- a) understand the different debates around climate change impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC);
- b) familiarize yourself with different impacts of climate change on IPLC, with the IPLC understanding of climate change impacts and with their strategies to adapt to climate change; and
- c) learn about different strategies to incorporate Indigenous peoples and local communities in climate change research and policy.
Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities at Coursera Curriculum
Climate change and Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Welcome to the course
Course organization
About the course certificate
Solving doubts and technical issues
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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
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
Quiz 1
Climate change impacts on indigenous peoples and local communities
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
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
Quiz 2
Coping and adapting to climate change impacts
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
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)
Quiz 3
Local Indicators of climate change impacts
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)
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
Quiz 4
The role of IPLC in global climate governance
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
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
Quiz 5
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