. . . "Be able to analyse the quality of local climate action plans regarding theu quality and credibility to reach carbon neutrality & their inclusion of indigenous knowledge alongside western knowledge"@en . . "Be able to analyse the quality of local climate action plans regarding theu quality and credibility to reach carbon neutrality & their inclusion of indigenous knowledge alongside western knowledge"@en . . . "Be able to translate the international climate change goals to the national and the local level."@en . . "Be able to translate the international climate change goals to the national and the local level."@en . . . "Be able to identify elements related to local carbon neutrality & indigenous knowledge in recent IPCC reports "@en . . "Be able to identify elements related to local carbon neutrality & indigenous knowledge in recent IPCC reports "@en . . . "Be able to develop and suggest solutions regarding a better planning for carbon neutrality & better inclusion of indigenous knowledge in local climate plans in selected case studies"@en . . "Be able to develop and suggest solutions regarding a better planning for carbon neutrality & better inclusion of indigenous knowledge in local climate plans in selected case studies"@en . . . "Be familiar with and able to discuss about common framework of local mitigation and adaptation planning."@en . . "Be familiar with and able to discuss about common framework of local mitigation and adaptation planning."@en . . . "Be able to distinguish between and outline main elements of different international policy agreements related to climate change."@en . . "Be able to distinguish between and outline main elements of different international policy agreements related to climate change."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO) is a two-year academic curriculum at MSc level, taught fully in English, dedicated to understanding the earth’s systems from a geographic and spatial perspective. The field of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation has, in recent years, witnessed fast scientific and technological developments. As a result, geographic information has become a vital asset to society and part of our daily life. The ubiquitous production and availability of spatial data require cloud computing and new technology to turn the increasing volume of ‘big data’ to good use. The growing range of global challenges, from climate change and resource depletion to environmental pollution and pandemic diseases, that our society and in particular the more vulnerable populations on our planet are facing, increases the demand for academic professionals who have the ability, attitudes and skills to design solutions that are sustainable, transdisciplinary and innovative with positive societal impacts. Our education focuses on addressing these global problems by means of advanced geo-information and earth observation applications."@en . "Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO)"@en . . "Master’s Programme Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (M-GEO)"@en . . . . "IPCC AR6 WGII"@en . . . "IPCC AR6 WGIII "@en . . . "Course"@en . "202001426" . "PGM_0007" . "5"^^ . "140"^^ . "10"^^ . "2023-02-02T23:00:00Z"^^ . "online" . "The students will work in a project-oriented style on their topic and in their case studies. This can include literature research, questionnaires, interviews with related case study staff. The findings will be presented in a mid-term presentation and summarized in a final report. The main and broad goal of the course is to develop comparative information on a particular topic within the broader realm of \"local climate planning for carbon neutrality\" and \"integrating western and indigenous knowledge systems in climate planning” in order to allow cities to learn from comparative cases and better plan for climate change. This can be based on best cases (or worse cases too).\n\nThis will include:\n\nLectures,\nWritten individual exam,\nWritten individual assignment,\nGroup report,\nGroup presentation,\nSelf-study."@en . "2"^^ . "2" . "1B " . "2022-11-13T23:00:00Z"^^ . "Climate Change is one of the greatest societal challenges of this century, as recently estimated by the nearly 1,000 experts interviewed for the World Risk Report. Urban areas are pivotal to global adaptation and mitigation efforts as cities are responsible for substantial amounts of greenhouse gases emissions and particularly vulnerable to climate hazards due to their high density of people, assets, and infrastructure. But how do cities currently perform? And, how can cities actually plan for successful climate change mitigation and adaptation?\n\nIn this year we look at two focal topics: 1) Mitigation: the 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Initiative of the EU; 2) Adaptation: how cities across the world can integrate indigenous knowledge/ information/ land processes into the (more) formal Local Climate Change Planning procedures?\n\nThis course shortly highlights the main processes and agreements of climate policy and governance at the global level (Paris Agreement, etc.) and then introduces in brief the theory and practice of Local Climate Change Planning (along the book: https://islandpress.org/books/local-climate-action-planning). Michael Boswell, the author of the book, will be part of our staff in this course this year).\n\nStudents will then choose to either work more deeply on mitigation or adaptation.\n\nWhen choosing mitigation students will study the EU Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030 Initiative (https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/newsroom/news/2022/05/05-06-2022-discover-the-100-cities-selected-for-the-cities-mission) and study related information on carbon neutrality in the two recently published IPCC reports. They will then work on how to achieve carbon neutrality through better planning & its implementation.\n\nWhen choosing adaptation students will review indigenous knowledge literature including but limited to the two recently published IPCC reports & work on its integration with (more) formal western knowledge. \n\nStudents will choose 2 case studies to address their topic in the practical work."@en . "Local Climate Change Planning"@en . "Local Climate Change Planning"@en . "Local Climate Change P