Overview

ABOUT THE COURSE:The "Climate Change and Resource Sustainability" course offers a vital exploration into the dynamic interplay between climate shifts and the sustainable management of resources. With our planet facing unprecedented environmental changes, understanding this intricate relationship becomes paramount. This course delves deep into the fundamentals of climate change, elucidating both natural and human induced causes while navigating the delicate balance within Earth's systems. From there, it transitions seamlessly into an examination of resource sustainability, emphasizing its pivotal role in sustainable development amidst climate challenges. Through a multidisciplinary lens, students explore practical strategies for managing resources sustainably, including renewable energy, water conservation, and biodiversity preservation. By fostering active engagement and hands-on research experiences, this course empowers participants to become catalysts for positive change in addressing the urgent issues at the nexus of climate change and resource sustainability.INTENDED AUDIENCE: The course is designed for students to develop the understanding about concepts, perspective geographical aspects of climate change and resource sustainability. To create basic awareness about various implications caused due to climate change ; to make them aware about issues, concerns and importance of sustainable development and also to realize the program policies and strategies of developmental goals.PREREQUISITES: 12th for UGINDUSTRY SUPPORT: As a planner in government initiatives, Urban planning, smart city planning, rural planning, resource management etc

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to Climate Change:

Climate Change: the transformation, Concept and causes,
Elements of Climate Change

Week 2:Earth's Spheres:

Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, and Biosphere, Greenhouse Gases and their Role

Week 3:Vulnerability to Climate Change:

Physical Vulnerability; Economic Vulnerability; Social Vulnerability
Vulnerability of Resources to Climate Change
Resource depletion impacts of climate change

Week 4:Understanding Climate change and Resource Sustainability:

Definition and Components of Resource Sustainability
Importance of Resource Sustainability in Sustainable Development

Week 5:Resources:

Types, functionality, Renewability
Human-Physical-biological systems
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle

Week 6:Climate Change Issues:

Weather Extremes, carbon cycle, Sea Level Change, Drought, Water Scarcity, Crop Yield Variability

Week 7:Climate Change and Health Impacts:

Carbon footprint-Climate finance
Climate equity: Justice, carbon credits, trade subsidies, economic prosperity, deprivation, poverty

Week 8:Demography:

Characteristics, Consumption pattern, man — nature -interaction
Technology -adoption-access

Week 9:Ecological Dynamics in Resource Management

Impact on Sustainable Resource Management

Week 10:Projected Climatic Changes and IPCC, UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, Overview of UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, and COP Conferences
Week 11:Impact:

Adaptation — Resilience
Sustainable Development Goals
Strategies for Sustainable Resource Management

Week 12:Research Project Presentation

Students present and discuss their research projects on climate change-related issues, vulnerability affecting resource sustainability, proposing practical solutions and strategies. The final weeks are dedicated to student presentations and discussions, allowing for a deeper engagement with applied research.