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Gina Ziervogel Department of Environmental and Geographical Science , University of Cape Town

Gina Ziervogel Department of Environmental and Geographical Science , University of Cape Town This work by Gina Ziervogel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License .

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Gina Ziervogel Department of Environmental and Geographical Science , University of Cape Town

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  1. Gina Ziervogel Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town This work by Gina Ziervogel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Vulnerability to Environmental Change: Course overview Module within Sustainability and the Environment (EGS 3021F) http://wakeupfreakout.org

  2. Overview

  3. Buzz group Turn to person next to you: • What do you understand by the term vulnerability? • Why is it important to understand given climate change?

  4. Summary: Section 1 and 2 • Vulnerability • Risk and vulnerability definitions • Focus on exposure, sensitivity and resilience • Conceptual approaches • Risk/Hazard • Political economy/ecology • Ecological resilience

  5. Summary: Section 3 • Assessing vulnerability • Scoping vulnerability assessment • Questions for initial framing of VA • Livelihood vulnerability • Qualitative • Quantitative • Indicators and mapping • Agent-based modelling • Scenarios

  6. Summary: Section 4 • Environmental change • Film: Wake up, freak out, get a grip • What is global environmental change? • IPCC process of examining climate change • Evidence of change • Africa • South Africa

  7. Summary: Section 5 and 6 • Adaptation • Concept • Builds on understanding of vulnerability • Adaptive capacity • Types of adaptation • Adaptation in eThekwini municipality • 4 phases • Municipal adaptation plans • Community adaptation plans • Sekhukhune district • Impacts of climate variability on livelihoods and municipality • The need to focus on adaptation in the water sector

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