Climate Change Science and Practice IIHS (Institution Deemed to be) University

Overview

This Climate Change Science and Practice degree from the IIHS (Institution Deemed to be) University covers the following set of themes:

• Climate science
• Climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
• Climate mitigation
• Climate change and systems transitions
• Financing climate action
• Climate policy and governance
• Climate action planning

• Climate risk assessment

This Master’s Programme has two distinct parts. The first roots the study of climate change in broader climate science, its subsequent impacts and response pathways. Using the analytical frame of systems transitions, it focuses on assessing multiple enabling conditions such as multi-level governance, institutional capacity, finance, policy instruments, behaviour change, and technology and innovation. It does so to ensure that climate change is understood as part of a broader set of multiple urban and rural systems, with clear linkages to development outcomes and prospects, and that learners have a foundational and interdisciplinary understanding within which to locate climate change.

It then equips graduates in the theoretical foundations of thinking about the response to climate change, as a transition and transformation process towards more inclusive societies, cities, and connected rural areas. Graduates will be able to understand core approaches to tackle climate challenges, with an emphasis on vulnerability and risk reduction, and climate-resilient development.

Key facts:

This Master’s Programme focuses on theory as well as policy, programmes, and practice. Graduates will be equipped with a core understanding of policies and programmatic interventions within climate action in India, and trained to design and implement interventions and programmes defined by the complex reality of Indian cities, linked rural areas and settlements. This is done through multiple modes of applied, case-based, and experiential learning built on a foundation of taught theory courses. The final component of the Programme is rigorous training in interdisciplinary methods of research and practice, as well as specific training in advanced methods in the study of climate change.