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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Learning Unit/Content</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Student Tasks</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Submit your Assignment</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1.1</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Introduction</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.1.1 Overview module</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.1.2. Linkage to other modules/SDGs</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">No <em>self-assessment</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1.2</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Basics on climate change<br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.2.1 Introduction to climate change</span><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.2.2 Understanding and assessing climate change scenarios</span><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1.2.3 International climate change policies</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Task 1:</strong> 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Task 2:</strong> The January 2019 brought record low temperatures to the United States. President Trump wrote on Twitter:<strong> "</strong>What the hell is going on with Global Warming? Please come back fast, we need you!" Prepare a five minute presentation <span lang="en" tabindex="0">and contrast the arguments of the climate skeptics with those learned in the last lessons.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1.3</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Tourism on climate change<br /></strong></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">1.3.1 CSR history, approaches, definitions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.3.2 Understanding CSR and CSR impacts</span></p>
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<p>Please have a look at the infographic provided by the University of Cambridge (2014): <a href="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">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</a>. 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.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>1.4</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Climate change adaptation<br /></strong></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">1.4.1 Understand adaptation</span><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.4.2 Plan your own adaptation</span><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.4.3 Climate adapted destination and business management</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.4.4 Climate protection as an approach to climate change adaptation</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Mitigation and energy resource efficieny<br /></strong></span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">1.5.1 Understand mitigation</span><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 1.5.2 CO2-Management</span></p>
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