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Course objectives

By completing the course, participants should be able to:

- Discuss the science, systems and societal issues of climate change,impacts of climate change and their linkages with climate induced extreme events;
- Assess specific sector vulnerabilities to climate change in different settings;
- Utilize decision support systems for assessing climate impacts, vulnerabilities and risks and use the tools for designing climate risk management policies, programs and interventions to reduce climate induced risks at different levels;
- Discuss and be familiar with the climate change planning processes fordesigning climate risk management policies, strategies, programs andinterventions at different levels;
- Identify a menu of options for climate risk management to a given context. Share good practices and lessons learned on climate risk managementfrom different contexts; and
- Develop hands-on skills on how to develop a CRM initiative (project/program/action) using the existing knowledge in an innovative learning environment.

Course curriculum

Module 1: Concepts and emerging directions of Climate Change and Climate Risk Management
Module 2: Climate change projections and decision support tools in Climate Risk Management
Module 3: Climate change and urban built systems
Module 4: Climate change and rural ecosystems
Module 5: Climate risk management planning and implementation
Module 6: Future knowledge applications and conclusions