Transformational Approaches to Climate Change

<p>Transformational Approaches to Climate Change</p><p>The course deals with societal transformation as a concept and as action in relation to climate change. It links to previous programme courses on mitigation and adaptation and introduces processes and potential for more fundamental changes that question or challenge the limits of current systems. Topics covered include the question of what constitutes societal transformation as well as approaches to achieving it. Transformation is explored in different areas, from the social to the individual. The course also covers one of the biggest changes of our time - algorithmic methods - and their impact on our ability to understand and manage climate change.</p> <p>The course is structured around four parts that build on each other:</p> <ol> <li>Approaches to transformation that present and discuss different frameworks for transformation in relation to climate change</li> <li>Stakeholders and methods of transformation that address profound change at different levels from the social to the individual</li> <li>Current transformation processes that focus on the impact of algorithmic processes - artificial intelligence and machine learning - on knowledge about and understanding of climate change, including their role in the dissemination of climate science</li> <li>Pathways forward in which the student explores possibilities of engaging actively in transformation processes in practice.</li> </ol>