SemesterSpring Semester, 2025
DepartmentInterdisciplinary General Education Courses
Course NameClimate Resilience in Motion
InstructorTU WEN-LING
Credit2.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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Week



Topic



Content and Reading Assignment



Teaching Activities and Homework



1



Kick-off week: course overview



Marwah, R., & Singh, S. (Eds.). (2023). Politics of climate change: Crises, conventions and cooperation. World Scientific.



 



2


Peace Memorial Day    

3



Energy Resilience



Aldieri, L., Gatto, A., & Vinci, C. P. (2021). Evaluation of energy resilience and adaptation policies: An energy efficiency analysis. Energy Policy, 157, 112505.



 



4



Water Resilience



Falkenmark, M., Wang-Erlandsson, L., & Rockström, J. (2019). Understanding of water resilience in the Anthropocene. Journal of Hydrology X, 2, 100009.



 



5



Economic Resilience



Lai, H. L., & Devine‐Wright, P. (2024). Imagining and emplacing net zero industrial clusters: A critical analysis of stakeholder discourses. Geo: Geography and Environment, 11(1), e00139.



 



6



Social Resilience



Rivera González, Joyce,



and Michelle Hak



Hepburn. 2022. "What



Resilience Does."



AnthroPod, Fieldsights,



February 17.



https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-resilience-does



 



7



Tomb-sweeping Day/Ching Ming Festival



 



 



8



Self-learning, no class



Listen to a global mosaic of climate adaptation solutions (Listen to a global mosaic of climate adaptation solutions (unep.org))



A one-page short memo: Choose a case study and find an example related to the category



9


Climate disinformation Online talk

Proposal sent by the end of the day.



10



How to write a policy brief?



Beynon, P., Chapoy, C., Gaarder, M., & Masset, E. (2012). What difference does a policy brief make. Full report of an IDS, 3ie, Norad study: Institute of Development Studies and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).



KOBZAR, Svitlana, Transforming research into an engaging policy story : how to write a policy brief, Migration Policy Centre, CARIM-East, Explanatory Notes, 2013/19 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62781


 

11


Climate Diplomacy and Global Leadership Mabey, N., Gallagher, L., & Born, C. (2013). The evolution of climate diplomacy and the international climate regime. Understanding Climate Diplomacy: Building diplomatic capacity and systems to avoid dangerous climate change, 21-34.

 



12



Climate Actions and Lobbying



(Climate Home News)No Carbon Budget left for Incremental Progress in Taiwan’s Climate Policy – TCAN 台灣氣候行動網絡



 



13



Climate Journalism



Schäfer, M. S., & Painter, J. (2021). Climate journalism in a changing media ecosystem: Assessing the production of climate change‐related news around the world. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(1), e675.



 



14


Climate Disaster Prevention Rathore, V. (2016). Technology in disaster management and disaster risk reduction: A review of applications. Technology, 6(4).

[Board game]



15



The bridge holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival


   

16



Group presentation week-I


   

17



Group presentation week-II


   

18


Self-learning, no class    

Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

  1. Weekly participation: 50 pts

    1. Attendance: 30 pts

    2. Participation in group discussion: 20 pts



  2. Course assignments (one-page memos): 20 pts

  3. Final group presentation: 30 pts



 


Textbook & Reference

Marwah, R., & Singh, S. (Eds.). (2023). Politics of climate change: Crises, conventions and cooperation. World Scientific.



Coen, D. R. (2019). Climate in motion: Science, empire, and the problem of scale. University of Chicago Press.


Urls about Course
What Resilience Does | Society for Cultural Anthropology Listen to a global mosaic of climate adaptation solutions (unep.org) https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62781 (Climate Home News)No Carbon Budget left for Incremental Progress in Taiwan’s Climate Policy – TCAN 台灣氣候行動網絡 (tcan2050.org.tw)
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