CLIMATE CHANGE: THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS / MEASURES TO REDUCE CLIMATE EXTREME IMPACTS

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding the meaning of natural and human induced climate changes and their impacts on natural and human systems and ecosystems.
• Development of the skills to determine risk factors that are related to exposure and vulnerability to climate changes.
• Development of skills to determine land use changes and their impact on carbon cycle.
• Development of skills to design mitigation measures at minimum cost.

Course Content: 
1. Introduction to Greenhouse phenomenon – Global temperature rise
2. Atmospheric components – Climate changes in the past
3. Sources of Green House Gasses, Carbon Footprint, CFCs and ozone protection
4. CO2 measurements, sea level rise, ocean acidification, decrease of ice cap areas, extreme weather events, climate extremes
5. IPCC Assessment Reports: The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), IPCC climate scenarios, Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)
6. Climate change mitigation technologies: Carbon capturing, carbon sequestration, geological capturing, policies for GHGs minimization
7. Computation of vegetation carbon stock changes
8. International Policies: The Kyoto Protocol, The Paris Agreement, United Nations Framework for Climate Change
9. Legal Framework: National and European legislation – Carbon trading system
10. Climate negotiations and climate diplomacy, emissions monitoring, national and individual reporting and verification procedures (MRV)
11. Climate change adaptation, National Adaptation Strategy and Regional Mitigation measures, Civil Protection aspects
12. Climate change impacts, vulnerability and resilience to climate change, assessment of climate risk
13. Examples of national policies for carbon capturing and land management

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1. Κλιματολογία και Κλιματική Αλλαγή
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 112691796, Έκδοση: 1η/2022
Συγγραφείς: Barry Roger, Hall-McKim Eileen A., Νάστος Παναγιώτης (Επιστ. Επιμέλεια), ISBN: 9789604189724
Διαθέτης (Εκδότης): ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε.
2. Κλιματική Αλλαγή
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 94691991, Έκδοση: 1η/2021
Συγγραφείς: Πασχαλίδου Αναστασία, ISBN: 978-960-418-812-3 Τύπος: Σύγγραμμα
Διαθέτης (Εκδότης): ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε
3. ΚΛΙΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΑΛΛΑΓΗ
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 68390777, Έκδοση: 1η/2017
Συγγραφείς: Εμμανουέλα Δούση
ISBN: 9789605696269
Τύπος: Σύγγραμμα
Διαθέτης (Εκδότης): Εκδόσεις Κυριάκος Παπαδόπουλος Α.Ε
4. Κλιματική Αλλαγή – Βιώσιμη Ανάπτυξη & Ανανεώσιμες Πηγές Ενέργειας
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 22825981
Έκδοση: 1η έκδ./2009
Συγγραφείς: Ανανιάδου – Τζημοπούλου Μαίρη [Συντονιστής έκδοσης], Τσιούρης Σωτήρης
[Συντονιστής έκδοσης]
ISBN: 9789604561797
Τύπος: Σύγγραμμα
Διαθέτης (Εκδότης): Ζήτη Πελαγία & Σια Ι.Κ.Ε.
5.ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΠΛΩΜΑΤΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΛΙΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΑΛΛΑΓΗΣ
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 94643576
Έκδοση: 1η/2020
Συγγραφείς: ΔΟΥΣΗ ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΕΛΑ
ISBN: 9789606541124
Τύπος: Σύγγραμμα
Διαθέτης (Εκδότης): ΝΟΜΙΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΑΕΕΤΕ
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