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科目代碼	GEC8002	課程名稱	氣候變遷研討
英文名稱	Studies in Climate Change
全/半年	半	必/選修	選修
學分數	3.0	每週授課時數	正課時數: 3.0 小時, 實驗時數: 0.0 小時
先修課程
課程簡介	Global environmental challenges, such as climate change, require human responses on various scale-levels – ranging from the global to local. This course adopts a human geography perspective on studies in climate change. While we will particularly focus on climate change and cities, we will also pay attention to rural areas and development. Students interested in climate resilience, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and coupled social-environmental systems are especially encouraged to take this course. Cities will be more and more vulnerable to the negative effects of global climate change. This is due to three main reasons: cities are immobile; cities are often located in low-elevated regions and deltas; and rapid and uncontrolled urbanization trends often pose significant challenges to urban and regional planners. Around 60 percent of people globally will live in urban areas by 2030. Especially secondary cities, urban settlements ranging in size between 10 per cent and 50 per cent of a nation’s largest city, are in dire need of developing strategies and policies which improve their climate resilience. On the one hand, climate change will increase rapid onset hazards, such as tropical storms, floods and cyclones. On the other hand, it will exacerbate slow onset hazards, such as drought, sea level rise, and changes in rainfall regimes and temperature Therefore, planners and scientists need to design a multitude of climate resilience planning strategies to respond to these diverse effects. At the same time, these planners and scientists are not working in a vacuum. They have to cooperate with local, national and international stakeholders. Climate resilience of rural hinterlands need to be taken into account as well. This to curb rural-to-urban migration flows. Hence, this course provides an holistic approach to climate resilience and sustainability. Not only will we discuss theoretical debates on climate resilience, and vulnerability, but this course also provides ample empirical evidence of both successful and unsuccessful planning strategies and challenges. While this course will primarily focus on Asia, we will also look at examples of other developed and developing countries. Furthermore, we will pay attention to Post-2015 sustainability agendas such as the New Urban Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals, and COP meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
課程目標		對應系所核心能力
1.　Understand and critically discuss theories on climate resilience, vulnerability, and sustainability.		碩士: 　1-1 了解地理學的專業知識與內涵 　2-1 具備地理學的內涵與技能、應用於實務研究、規劃與管理能力 　4-1 能自我實踐科學研究的精神 博士: 　1-1 了解及創造地理學的專業知識 　2-1 具備地理學的內涵與技能、應用於實務研究、規劃與管理能力 　4-1 能自我實踐科學研究的精神
2.　Be familiar with the negative effects of climate change on cities and rural hinterlands		碩士: 　2-2 具備環境議題分析與應用能力，能整合地理學知識與技能應用於環境評估與規劃 　3-3 具備人文及科技素養，以思考、判斷、創造能力解決問題 博士: 　2-2 具備環境議題分析與應用能力，能整合地理學知識與技能應用於環境評估與規劃 　3-3 具備人文及科技素養，以思考、判斷、創造能力解決問題
3.　Map the different stakeholders and governance regimes affecting climate change planning.		碩士: 　1-3 具備獨立從事地理學專題研究的能力 　2-4 具備整合空間資訊的技能，跨領域分析、研究、規劃、管理與決策的應用能力 博士: 　1-3 具備獨立從事地理學原創研究的能力 　2-4 具備整合空間資訊的技能，跨領域分析、研究、規劃、管理與決策的應用能力
4.　Evaluate the sustainability of climate resilience planning and policies across various geographical contexts.		碩士: 　2-3 具備整合規劃區域發展，參與制定政策與公共事務的能力 　3-3 具備人文及科技素養，以思考、判斷、創造能力解決問題 　4-3 具備環境正義、環境倫理與實現永續發展的價值觀 博士: 　2-3 具備整合規劃區域發展，參與制定政策與公共事務的能力 　3-3 具備人文及科技素養，以思考、判斷、創造能力解決問題 　4-3 具備環境正義、環境倫理與實現永續發展的價值觀