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Week - 1 |
Course introduction: climate change impacts, climate adaptation, and the sustainability framework |
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Week - 2 |
Foundations of environmental sustainability: systems thinking, sustainability assessment, and environmental performance |
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Week - 3 |
Sustainability indicators: indicator selection, data quality, scale, thresholds, and benchmarking |
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Week - 4 |
Environmental performance indicators and indicator sets: SDG, OECD, EEA, and institutional examples |
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Week - 5 |
Risk analysis: hazard, exposure, sensitivity, probability, and impact components |
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Week - 6 |
Vulnerability and resilience assessments: socio-ecological systems and spatial differences |
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Week - 7 |
Adaptive capacity: governance, institutional capacity, technology, finance, and social learning |
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Week - 8 |
Ecological footprint and carrying capacity: methods, data requirements, and interpretation |
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Week - 9 |
Water footprint and watershed-scale adaptation indicators |
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Week - 10 |
Carbon footprint, mitigation-adaptation linkages, and resource efficiency indicators |
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Week - 11 |
Ecosystem health, biodiversity, and ecosystem services indicators |
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Week - 12 |
Indicator development and index construction: normalization, weighting, aggregation, and sensitivity analysis |
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Week - 13 |
Decision support systems: data visualization, scenario analysis, and adaptation prioritization |
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Week - 14 |
Policy analysis, sustainability assessment, and interdisciplinary project presentations |