Week
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Topic
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Content and Reading Assignment
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Teaching Activities and Homework
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1
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Kick-off week: course overview
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2
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Climate science and politics
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- Coen, D. R. (2019). Climate in motion: Science, empire, and the problem of scale. University of Chicago Press.
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3
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Mitigation and adaptation
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- Aldieri, L., Gatto, A., & Vinci, C. P. (2021). Evaluation of energy resilience and adaptation policies: An energy efficiency analysis. Energy Policy, 157, 112505.
- Falkenmark, M., Wang-Erlandsson, L., & Rockström, J. (2019). Understanding of water resilience in the Anthropocene. Journal of Hydrology X, 2, 100009.
- 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.
- Rivera González, Joyce, and Michelle Hak Hepburn. 2022. "What Resilience Does." AnthroPod, Fieldsights, February 17. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/what-resilience-does
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4
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Mining Green Futures for Others? Responsible Critical Mineral Supply Chains
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- Deberdt, R., & Le Billon, P. (2021). Conflict minerals and battery materials supply chains: A mapping review of responsible sourcing initiatives. The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(4), 100935.
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5
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Emissions Trends and Drivers
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- Introducing Global Emission Profile and characteristic
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Database exploration
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6
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National Holiday
[No class]
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7
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Climate Scenario and Emission Pathway
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- Exploring the future through scenarios and pathways
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Climate Scenario Simulator
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8
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National Holiday
[No class]
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9
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Demand side solution
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Demand side solution to achieve net-zero, focus on building and mobility
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Interactive Group Discussion
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10
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Industrial Decarbonization
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- The mitigation measures for energy-intensive industry
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11
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Climate litigation
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12
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Climate Journalism
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- 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.
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13
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Climate Disaster Prevention
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Rathore, V. (2016). Technology in disaster management and disaster risk reduction: A review of applications. Technology, 6(4).
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[Board game]
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14
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Just Transition
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The origin and development of just transition
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[Board game]
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15
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Group presentation week-I
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16
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Group presentation week-II
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• 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.
• Teske, S. Achieving the Paris climate agreement goals: global and regional 100% renewable energy scenarios with non-energy GHG pathways for +1.5°C and +2°C. Springer International Publishing (2019), 10.1007/978-3-030-05843-2 (Open Access)
• IPCC, 2022: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, R. Slade, A. Al Khourdajie, R. van Diemen, D. McCollum, M. Pathak, S. Some, P. Vyas, R. Fradera, M. Belkacemi, A. Hasija, G. Lisboa, S. Luz, J. Malley, (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. doi: 10.1017/9781009157926.001 (Chinese Version in https://smctw.tw/12664/ )
• Bergero, C., Binsted, M., Chia-Wei Chao, Kuen-Tien Chou, Cheng-Cheng Wu, Yang Wei,Yarlagadda, B., McJeon HC., 2020. An Integrated Assessment of a Low Coal Low Nuclear Future Energy System for Taiwan. Energy and Climate Change. Online First https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2020.100022.
• Energy Policy Solutions https://energypolicy.solutions
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