Graduate Certificate in Climate Change Adaptation

Program Overview

This graduate certificate empowers students to analyze climate change impacts and develop creative adaptation strategies to protect communities, businesses, and the environment. It covers topics such as urban planning, public services, economic development, biodiversity conservation, and treaty development. With a focus on both theory and practice, the program prepares students for careers in various sectors, including environmental sciences, business, engineering, planning, and public health.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This graduate certificate provides the ability to analyze impacts of climate change while also developing the creative skills needed to build durability against those impacts across society and the environment. This includes the ability to develop and deploy adaptation strategies to protect communities, businesses, government agencies, infrastructure, and natural assets. These skills can be applied at the local, national and international levels in the private, community, and public sectors. As a student, you will be empowered to get involved in improving the planning of urban areas, providing better services to the public to improve wellbeing. In the process, you'll support the transformation of economic development, the creation of new management plans to conserve biodiversity, the development of treaties to protect major earth systems, and more.

Outline:

Semester 1

Climate Change Adaptation - 7007ENV Urban Futures: Delivering Water Sensitive Cities - 7950ESC

Semester 2

Climate Adaptation Theory and Practice - 7019ESC

Electives

(20 credit points) Sustainability and Systems Thinking - 7920IBA Environmental Pollution - 7421ENV Policymaking and Planning for Climate Change - 7057ENV Climate Change and Public Health - 7117MED Communication in Crises and Disasters - 7125LHS Environmental Systems and Climate Change - 7250ENV Emerging Issues in Disaster and Pandemic Planning, Response and Management - 8038NRS

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The global commitment to mitigate climate change requires structural changes in the global economy, and that means knowledge in this area will be increasingly relevant not only in the environmental sciences but also in other disciplines, such as business, engineering, planning, and public health. Climate influences all aspects of the earth's systems, including ecosystem function and structure, human health, agricultural productivity and our overall socio-economic well-being. This graduate certificate also offers a pathway to further study in our Master of Climate Change Adaptation.