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CEME 4006 - Climate Risk and Resilience

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2022

Climate risk is emerging as a key risk driver for systems as diverse as critical infrastructure (water, energy, transport, communications) and the built environment (buildings and cities), agrifood and fibre production systems, human health, finance and insurance, and the natural environment. These climate risks include physical risks (arising from the physical manifestation of climate change), transition risks (because of transition to a carbon-neutral economy) and systemic risks (because of interconnections between sectors and systems). This course will highlight the roles, responsibilities, and ethical considerations for engineers and other risk professionals in the identification, evaluation and management of climate risk, and provide students with a suite of theories, methods and tools to support risk assessments. A particular focus will be placed on evaluating risks in complex systems that are beyond the scope or control of individual actors (e.g. organisations). Finally, this course will provide overview of emerging concepts of system resilience, and students will learn about methods both to support adaptive planning and to enhance system resilience.

  • General Course Information
    Course Details
    Course Code CEME 4006
    Course Climate Risk and Resilience
    Coordinating Unit School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Eng
    Term Semester 2
    Level Undergraduate
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Professor Seth Westra

    Course Timetable

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  • Learning Outcomes
    Course Learning Outcomes
    On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
    1. Articulate the theoretical and methodological foundations and ethical responsibilities of practitioners in the field of risk analysis.
    2. Demonstrate competency in a range of qualitative and quantitative methods for risk analysis, and describe their underlying assumptions and application contexts.
    3. Apply systems thinking principles to the field of risk analysis, including problem framing, boundary critique, method selection and approaches to systemic complexity.
    4. Generate context-relevant climate and energy futures (projections and scenarios), and describe assumptions of alternative ‘lines of evidence’.
    5. Conduct a causal analysis of a historical climate-related ‘failure’, and describe the utility and limitations of this analysis to inform risk assessments.
    6. Describe the difference between adaptive planning and enhancing system resilience, and identify methods managing both foreseen and unforeseen risks.
    University Graduate Attributes

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  • Learning Resources
    Required Resources
    All necessary course material will be made available on MyUni. Several assignments will require further research, and students should make use of the 成人大片 library and resources (e.g. databases) therein.
  • Learning & Teaching Activities
    Learning & Teaching Modes

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    Workload

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    Learning Activities Summary

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  • Assessment

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    1. Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
    2. Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
    3. Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
    4. Assessment must maintain academic standards.

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    Assessment Detail

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    Submission

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    Course Grading

    Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

    M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

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