The Oxford Adaptation Academy

The course programme will reflect the needs and interests of the participants to:

-Explore the framing of climate change and concepts of risk, vulnerability and adaptation;

-Assess vulnerability and impacts, with experience from disaster risk reduction;

-Analyze climate data for change and variability trends and extreme events;

-Assess confidence and uncertainty in climate change scenarios;

-Develop personal leadership skills and an understanding of organisational change;

-Create a project level Theory of Change integrating a continuum of adaptation from good development to transformation;

-Work with practical approaches to communicating climate risks and adaptation opportunities;

-Map socio-institutional networks, information flows and needs;

-Define national, sectoral, urban and local strategies and measures;

-Assess the economics of adaptation and adaptation finance;

-Screen adaptation options to develop sound projects;

-Explore innovative approaches for resilience in the private sector.

For more information see Oxford Adaptation Academy http://www.climateadaptation.cc/

http://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/education/gcap.php