Responses to Climate Change: What You Need to Know gives a brief overview of the adaptation options, resistance, resilience, and transition, and how to incorporate them into natural resource planning, as well as providing definitions and descriptions of mitigation and restoration. A regionally-relevant activity follows the main material, and a personalized certificate is generated upon completion.
Learning Objectives
By the end of Responses to Climate Change, users should know:- The three adaptation options: resistance, resilience, and transition
- Differences and similarities between resistance, resilience, and transition
- Benefits and risks involved with each of the adaptation options
- The basic steps of the adaptation planning process
- Mitigation options for land management
- Differences between adaptation, mitigation, and restoration
- Different types of ecosystem management responses
- Climate change challenges, opportunities, and adaptation tactics for their region
- Climate change adaptation planning processes