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Making Climate Adaptation Happen: Governing Transformation Strategies for Climate Change
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on January 24, 2021
- Ends on February 21, 2021
Course details
Syllabus
- Climate science and controversies
- Climate adaptation governance
- Climate finance
- Nature-based solutions
Prerequisite
This course is developed for current and future environmental policy professionals working in both the public and private sectors. It will also appeal to students or professionals interested or working in political science, environmental management, risk management, governance studies, and other related social science fields.
Instructors
Hellen Dawo
Project Officer Interreg the North Sea Region/Ph.D. Research University of Groningen - Campus Fryslan. My research includes sustainable entrepreneurship and business model innovation in sensitive ecologies
Karsten Schulz
Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation, University of Groningen
Editor
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1614 and is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands as well as one of its largest. Since its inception more than 200,000 students have graduated. It is a member of the distinguished international Coimbra Group of European universities.
In April 2013, according to the results of the International Student Barometer, the University of Groningen, for the third time in a row, has been voted the best University of the Netherlands. In 2014 the university celebrated its 400th anniversary.
The University of Groningen has ten faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175 degree programmes.
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