The goal of this short course is to introduce the students to the main climate change research concepts and prepare them to use available information on scenarios, impacts and adaptation. Specific goals include:

• Study climate change and socio-economic scenarios and have an overview of what are the predictions for Portugal, Europe and the World;
• Explore the main expected impacts of climate change in a range of sectors;
• Explore direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity; introduction vulnerability assessment methodologies;
• Study specific responses to climate change, namely Mitigation and Adaptation (including Ecosystem based Adaptation), looking at specific examples in a range of scales.

This course can have a recognition of 6 ECTs for FCUL PhD students enrolling in it as part of their first doctoral year. For FCUL PhD students only requiring 5 ECTs recognized in their specific PhD programmes, 6 hours of the course are not mandatory and the certificate will be on 'Topics in Climate Change: scenarios, impacts and responses.

Lecturer(s) or Responsable(s): Maria João Cruz and Elisabeth Robert (coordinators), Hugo Costa, Mário Pulquério, David Avelar, Luís Dias, Ana Gomes, Sílvia Carvalho (CCIAM, cE3c)
Date: June 5th, 2017 to June 9th, 2017
Deadline for Applications: May 12th, 2017