Building Capacity for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Mainstreaming Climate Change in Curricula of Tertiary Training Institutions in Africa
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2017
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Springer, Cham
Abstract
Climate variability and change, which intensified since 1970s, are
threatening natural resources and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa where people
depend on climate sensitive natural resources, such as agriculture and fisheries, but
have limited capacity to adapt. Increasing human and institutional capacity to
address threats posed by climate change to natural resources and livelihoods
requires building capacity to generate and disseminate information and knowledge
on climate change, its impacts, adaptation and mitigation through research, education
and raising awareness by tertiary training institutions. Most tertiary training
institutions in Africa have curricula covering basic and applied natural resources
management but most of them do not include climate change. This paper presents a
training curriculum and manual that was developed to fill this gap. The purpose of the paper is to provide in-depth information on how Climate Change can be integrated
into the fisheries and aquaculture curricula of tertiary training institutions. It
also provides students, scientists, practitioners, and policy makers with an understanding
of key concepts and approaches to climate change mitigation measures,
adaptation strategies, and policies. The aim is to mainstream climate change in
fisheries training. The specific objectives are to facilitate introduction of climate
change in fisheries training in Uganda that can be developed further and adopted by
other countries in Africa and elsewhere; Equip students with scientific and technical
capacity to anticipate and evaluate changes in climate and its influence, communicate
information to stakeholders, design, and test adaptation strategies and mitigation
measures; and Increase human resource capacity to address climate change
issues through reviewing and strengthening of the national education system. The
curriculum consists of seven modules covering: Major threats to natural resources;
Introduction to climate change; Implications of climate change on aquatic productivity
processes and fisheries; Implications of climate change on aquaculture;
Livelihoods, impacts, adaptation and mitigation; Aquatic ecosystem modeling in
relation to climate change; Principles, policies, regulations and institutions required
to address impacts of climate change. The modules will be delivered through
lectures, discussions, case studies and field visits. It is recommended that the curriculum
and manual be incorporated into training programs of tertiary training
institutions to build the capacity required to address climate change challenges
particularly for fisheries in Africa.
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Keywords
Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, Capacity building, Fisheries resources, Livelihoods, Tertiary institutions
Citation
Efitre, J., Natugonza, V., Musinguzi, L., Olokotum, M., Naigaga, S., & Ogutu-Ohwayo, R. (2017). Building capacity for climate change mitigation and adaptation through mainstreaming climate change in curricula of tertiary training institutions in Africa. In Climate change research at universities (pp. 423-440). Springer, Cham. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58214-6_27