Please note that this is an on-going project.
Project Description
The Climate Change Adaptation programs are designed to give professionals from any background a sound interdisciplinary knowledge of climate change, the ability to analyse its impacts, and the creative skills needed to build resilience across society and the environment. This includes the ability to develop and deploy adaptation strategies to protect communities, businesses, government agencies, infrastructure, and natural assets.
These skills can be applied from the local to the national and international level. They will empower students to be involved in, for example, improving the planning of urban areas, providing better services to the public to improve well-being, transforming economic development, creating new management plans to conserve biodiversity, or the development of treaties to protect major earth systems.
Project Personnel and Beneficiaries
Students can enroll from any background to up-skill their professional qualifications and diversify their employment options. Graduates acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to help organisations across the public, private and community sectors, to build their resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Outcomes to Date
On average over seventy students enroll in these combined programs each year. Graduates are already working to help society adapt to climate change.
Project Significance
The global commitment to address climate change requires structural changes in the global economy, and that means knowledge in this area will be increasingly relevant not only in the environmental sciences but also in other disciplines, such as business, engineering, planning, and public health. Climate influences all aspects of the earth’s systems, including ecosystem function and structure, human health, agricultural productivity and our overall socioeconomic well-being.
Related Link
External link to https://www.griffith.edu.au/study/degrees/master-of-climate-change-adaptation-5743