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Root number
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472496 |
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Semester
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HS2023 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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Sociology |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
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Climate Change Mitigation |
| Description |
Anthropogenic climate change probably is the most demanding challenge humanity has to face in the ongoing 21st century and beyond. Since “The Limits to Growth”, the seminal report of the Club of Rome in the early 1970s, global concern for anthropogenic climate change (ACC), and its impacts on ecosystems and humanity has steadily increased – so has the awareness to reconcile human development with environmental protection. Thus, it was only recently that the world community has agreed upon the limitation of global warming to well below 2 °C relative to preindustrial levels in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. To prevent dangerous climate change fast and forceful measures of mitigation are inevitable. However, limiting carbon emissions to current levels or even abating them to be in line with the climate target seems a tremendous challenge in the light of steadily increasing global carbon emissions.
Hence, this seminar deals with the description and explanation of ACC, its impacts on societies, and various aspects of its mitigation. Therefore, the seminar starts with an overview of the biogeochemical and -physical foundations, the causes, the development and the extent of ACC on a global scale and on country-level. Next, the seminar is concerned with modelling the underlying cooperation problem of climate change mitigation (CCM) as a collective risk social dilemma from a game-theoretic perspective as well as potential solutions to it. In this vein, the seminar also deals with determinants of climate change-related attitudes and behaviours on the micro-level of individual actors as well as on the macro-level of countries incl. climate scepticism and the Fridays for Future movement. Furthermore, the social, economic and health-related consequences of ACC are discussed in the seminar including issues of climate justice. In addition, the seminar examines the efficacy and public acceptance of policy instruments for CCM as well as the potential of negative emission technologies incl. nature-based solutions like large-scale afforestation.
Prerequisites:
Compulsory courses of the social sciences from the bachelor study first year concluded.
Form of Implementation: Presence
Inscription:
from August 15th 2023, 08:00 pm onwards via ILIAS |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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No registration/deregistration in CTS (Admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Sebastian Mader-Eiler, Department of Social Sciences ✉
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ECTS
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6 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Friday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
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Wednesday 31/1/2024 23:50-23:55
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum 002, Seminargebäude vonRoll
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