Seminar: Seminar Climate Change and Conflict (MA) - Details

Seminar: Seminar Climate Change and Conflict (MA) - Details

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Course name Seminar: Seminar Climate Change and Conflict (MA)
Semester SS 2024
Current number of participants 4
expected number of participants 10
Home institute Prof. Dr. Florian Diekert - Umweltökonomik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 23.04.2024 10:00 - 11:30, Room: (ZfK Seminarraum 1201)
Type/Form Präsenzveranstaltung
Learning organisation Einführungsveranstaltung, Gruppenarbeit, Blockseminar
Performance record Term paper and problem sets
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch
Weitere Unterrichtssprache(n) Deutsch
Literaturhinweise Background paper:
Mach, K.J., Kraan, C.M., Adger, W.N., Buhaug, H., Burke, M., Fearon, J.D., Field, C.B., Hendrix, C.S., Maystadt, J.-F., O’Loughlin, J., Roessler, P., Scheffran, J., Schultz, K.A., von Uexkull, N., 2019. Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict. Nature 571, 193–197. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1300-6
Miscellanea Learning objectives:
- Awareness of Interconnectedness: Students should grasp the complex relationship between climate change and conflict, including how environmental factors can exacerbate existing tensions and lead to new conflicts.
- Environmental Science: Gain a foundational understanding of the science behind climate change, its causes, and its effects on ecosystems and communities.
- Policy and Law: Understand the legal and policy frameworks at local, national, and international levels related to climate change and conflict mitigation.
- Case Studies (Middle East, Arab Spring): Analyze real-world case studies to examine how climate change has contributed to conflicts, the responses taken, and their outcomes.
- Mitigation and Adaptation: Discuss strategies for mitigating the impact of climate change and adapting to the challenges it poses in conflict-prone regions.
- Critical Thinking: Encourage critical thinking and research skills to evaluate the evidence, assess the validity of claims, and develop well-informed perspectives on the topic.
ECTS points 5

Rooms and times

(ZfK Seminarraum 1201)
Tuesday, 23.04.2024 10:00 - 11:30
(Zoom)
Friday, 26.04.2024 15:00 - 16:00
(Raum J 1601)
Thursday, 27.06.2024 08:30 - 15:30
(Raum J 2102)
Friday, 28.06.2024 08:30 - 15:30

Module assignments

Comment/Description

As climate change intensifies, resource scarcity, displacement, and extreme weather events can exacerbate conflicts. By understanding this relationship, we can develop strategies to mitigate violence and promote sustainable peace in an increasingly vulnerable world. Climate change and conflict is an excellent topic for understanding the interplay between environmental factors, socio-economic development and legal frameworks.

The focus of this interdisciplinary seminar will be on legal considerations (legal frameworks, conflict resolution, environmental regulations, climate justice, policy and advocacy), climatic drivers and their impact on agriculture (droughts and water stress, teleconnections, food production, adaptation) and economic consequences (food prices, subsidies, initial socio-economic conditions, poverty). Students will come from legal studies, geographie, climatology and economics and work together (but will evaluated by discpiline specific criteria)