Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Smart Climate Design
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
ARC549030
4. Credits:
2
5. Course Objectives:
The course aims to raise awareness among students about human activities that exacerbate the impacts of global warming. Additionally, the course will introduce different urban design strategies to deal with the consequences of global warming.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
The course "Smart Climate Design" is designed to build adaptive capacity and resilience to the impacts of climate change in urban areas in the Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific regions. The course is specifically targeted at second- and third-tier cities across these regions, but the material can be customized for other contexts. The course is geared towards both government and nongovernment stakeholders. The primary objectives of the course are as follows:
- Introduce a systems perspective for thinking about the impacts of climate change on cities;
- Increase general knowledge of global warming and climate change;
- Provide a foundation for understanding direct and indirect impacts of climate change that are locally specific;
- Provide a framework for conducting vulnerability assessments at different scales, ranging from neighborhoods to municipalities;
- Enable participants to generate a portfolio of strategies to systematically address identified vulnerabilities;
- Provide tools and techniques to establish priorities and evaluative criteria to choose between resilience and adaptation options;
- Present a general overview of the process of writing proposals for external grants and loans to finance the implementation of resilience options; and
Provide an overview of financing options, including locally generated revenue, private sector support, and national and international grants and loans.