Transcript Climate and Water

Staff Training program on Water and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation
Proposed:
Dr. A.K.M. Saiful Islam
Dr. Sujit Kumar Bala
Associate Professor, IWFM
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
August 2-9, 2009
Designing Courses
 Modification of Existing M.Sc. Course entitled
“Climate Change Risk Management”
 3 credit
 14 weeks and 3 hours/week
 Short course “Climate change risk and adaptation
for Water Professionals”
 3 days
Existing M.Sc. Course Content:
“Climate Change Risk Management”
 The global climate system: global heat and water balance,
atmospheric circulation, ocean circulation, coupled ocean
and atmospheric processes;
 Climate variability and climate change;
 Assessment of climate change risks;
 Forecasts and scenarios development;
 Impact of climate change on water related hazards;
 Economic, social and environmental implications;
 Mitigation measures and adaptation techniques;
 Mainstreaming climate change risk management.
Proposed M.Sc. Course Content:
“Climate and Water”
 Objectives
 Understanding the concept of Integrated Water
Resources Management in relation to Climate Change.
 Understanding the climate system and the hydrological
cycle.
 Being aware of the economic, environmental and social
impact of climate.
 Understanding of adaptation in relation to water and
climate change.
Proposed – “Climate and Water”
Module-1
 Climate System and Hydrologic cycle
 Atmosphere
 Cryosphere: Sea, Ice sheet, Glacier
 Hydrosphere: River, Lakes, ocean interactions
 Hydrologic Cycle
 Biosphere and Ecosystem
Module-2
 Climate variability and climate change.
 Global warming and green house gases
 Historic aspects of global climate change
 Climate change in South Asian context: Case study
Proposed – “Climate and Water”
Module-3
 Prediction of climate change
 Global and regional climate change predictions
 Dynamic and static downscaling for impact study.
 Uncertainty of predictions .
Module-4
 Impact of climate change on water sector
 Flood risk assessment
 Drought risk assessment
 Sea level rise and salinity intrusion
 River Erosion and livelihoods
 Cyclone and storm surges
Proposed – “Climate and Water”
Module-5
 Environmental implications of climate change
 Impact of climate change on deltaic ecosystem (arid, coastal
and deltaic system).
 Implication of climate change on agriculture, food security
and livelihood.
 Implication of climate change on water supply, sanitation and
health (heat stress and vector born diseases).
 Vulnerability analysis, adaptive capacity and sensitivity.
Module-6
 Economic and social implications of climate change
 Economics of climate change
 Social impact of climate change: vulnerable social groups and
gender.
Proposed – “Climate and Water”
Module-7
 Mitigation measures and adaptation techniques.
 Mitigation measures and carbon trading.
 Non structural and structural adaptation.
 Adaptation techniques in the context of integrated water
resource management.
Module-8
 Policy, laws, international conventions and country
program.
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Global awareness and IPCC interpretations
Koyoto protocol and other international conventions.
Responses to climate change: global, national and local
National Climate change strategies and activities.
Institutional arrangements of climate change.
References
 http://www.cap-net.org/node/1516
References
 http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/Short-
courses/Online-courses/Water-and-Climate-Change
Short course
 Climate Change Training For Water
Professionals
 held on 18-20 October, 2008.
 held on 17-19 November, 2008.
 Number of participants: 35
 Organized by BUET and BCAS
Short Course: Climate Change
Training For Water Professionals
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Climate Change Risks.
International conventions and country programs.
Economic Implications of climate change.
Social Implications of climate change.
Implication of climate change in water sector of Bangladesh.
Climate change modeling.
Impact of climate change on flooding and sea level rise.
Planning for climate change risk management in Bangladesh.
Climate change mitigation technologies.
Climate proofing of water infrastructures: new design and
rehabilitation considerations.
 Demonstration through Case studies