Interdisciplinary Sciences-E2 :Global Changes
| Numbering Code | U-LAS60 10002 LE17 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | Mainly 1st year students | Target Student | For all majors | |
| Language | English | Day/Period | Thu.5 | |
| Instructor name |
YODEN SHIGEO (Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Program-Specific Professor) Sameh Kantoush (Disaster Prevention Research Institute Associate Professor) LAHOURNAT，Florence (Disaster Prevention Research Institute Senior Lecturer) |
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| Outline and Purpose of the Course | We summarize the current understanding of the global change issues, such as global warming and ozone depletion, based on IPCC 6th Assessment Report (Summary for policymakers, WG I: the physical science basis), and WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018, respectively. Also, we discuss efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, by using International Science Council Report“Unleashing Science: Delivering Missions for Sustainability.” | |||
| Course Goals | To learn the current understanding of the global change issues, such as global warming and ozone depletion, and to learn some possible ways of thinking for adaptation and mitigation of the global change issues. Also, to learn a possible role of science for delivering specific missions related to the critical areas of Sustainable Development Goals. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
0. Introduction (1 week) ・self-introductions of the participants ・description of the class outline and objectives ・grouping: a couple of groups for each focused target to enable debates between the corresponding groups 1. Theme 1 (6 weeks) “global warming: the scientific basis, impacts on society, and adaptation/mitigation” ・introductory lecture (1 week) ・group works (3 weeks) ・presentations and discussions (2 weeks) 2. Theme 2 (6 weeks) “ozone depletion: the scientific basis, impacts on society, and adaptation/mitigation” ・introductory lecture (1 week) ・group works (3 weeks) ・presentations and discussions (2 weeks) 3. Summary and Conclusions (1 week) ・general discussion: relation to the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ・summary, final remarks, and comments by all 4. Feedback (1week) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Class attendance/active participation in the group works, and presentations/discussions. The details of the percentages for each evaluation item will be explained in the first lecture. | |||
| Course Requirements | None | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Reading the references are necessary for active participation in discussion sections. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | No textbook. Use the pdf files of the following references. | ||
| References, etc. |
IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. lekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press. 41 pp. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ International Science Council, 2021: Unleashing Science: Delivering missions for Sustainability, Paris, France.International Science Council. 49 pp. DOI: 10.24948/2021.04 WMO (World Meteorological Organization), 2018: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report, 58, 588 pp., Geneva, Switzerland, 2018. (Executive Summary, 67 pp.) https://ozone.unep.org/science/assessment/sap |
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