Module 1: Assignments
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Learning Unit/Content |
Student Tasks |
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1.1 |
Introduction 1.1.1 Overview module 1.1.2. Linkage to other modules/SDGs |
No self-assessment |
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1.2 |
Basics on climate change 1.2.1 Introduction to climate change 1.2.2 Understanding and assessing climate change scenarios 1.2.3 International climate change policies |
Task 1: How much has your home country been affected by extreme weather events in the past five years? Do a short online research on extreme weather events in your home country and list the impacts. Prepare a 5 minute presentation. Task 2: The January 2019 brought record low temperatures to the United States. President Trump wrote on Twitter: "What the hell is going on with Global Warming? Please come back fast, we need you!" Prepare a five minute presentation and contrast the arguments of the climate skeptics with those learned in the last lessons. |
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1.3 |
Tourism on climate change 1.3.1 CSR history, approaches, definitions 1.3.2 Understanding CSR and CSR impacts |
Please have a look at the infographic provided by the University of Cambridge (2014): https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/business-action/low-carbon-transformation/ipcc-climate-science-business-briefings/pdfs/infographics/ipcc-ar5-implications-for-tourism-infographic-w.pdf. Now specify the impacts of climate change for a selected tourism segment which is important in your home country (e.g. beach tourism, biking tourism etc.). Prepare a 5 minute presentation. |
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1.4 |
Climate change adaptation 1.4.1 Understand adaptation 1.4.2 Plan your own adaptation 1.4.3 Climate adapted destination and business management 1.4.4 Climate protection as an approach to climate change adaptation |
As a self-assessment, please find three to five best-practice examples of adaptation in the tourism industry searching the internet and argue for each example succinctly in writing why you chose it. |
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1.5 |
Mitigation and energy resource efficieny 1.5.1 Understand mitigation 1.5.2 CO2-Management |
To be determined yet. |
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