- Course Home Page
- Module 1: Introduction to climate change
- Lesson 1: What is climate change? A basic introduction to climate change, introducing important terms.
- Lesson 2: Has the climate always been changing, or is this a new phenomenon? What distinguishes the current rapid global warming from historic climate changes?
- Lesson 3: What are the causes of climate change? Learn about human activities that have caused the sudden and dramatic changes.
- Global Warming Basics (Series of 10 videos)
- The State of the Climate
- Discussion Question: Human Behavior and Climate Change
- The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change
- The Carbon Crisis in 90 seconds
- Climate change 2007: Synthesis report
- Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change
- Frequently asked questions about the controversy surrounding the United Nations' Livestock's Long Shadow and Responses
- Discussion Question: Anthropogenic sources of GHGs
- Quiz: Module 1: Lesson 3.
- Optional Peer Activity: Calculate your carbon footprint
- Chapter 2. Weather and climate: changing human exposures.
- NASA explains how human activities contribute to global warming
- Worse for climate than cars: Eating meat
- Lesson 1: What is climate change? A basic introduction to climate change, introducing important terms.
- Module 2: The effects of climate change on public health
- Lesson 1: How will climate change affect human health? Learn about ways that climate change is currently affecting human health, and predictions for future public health effects.
- Chapter 8: Human Health 8.2 Current sensitivity and vulnerability 8.3 Assumptions about future trends 8.4 Key future impacts and vulnerabilities
- Discussion Question: Chronic Health Impacts
- Climate change and human health: present and future risks
- Chapter 7. How much disease could climate change cause?
- Climate change and mental health
- Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1.
- Climate Change and Health
- The Health Impacts of Climate Change
- Chapter 10. Monitoring the health effects of climate change: Diarrhoeal illness
- Chapter 5. Impacts on health of climate extremes: Temperature Extremes: heatwaves and cold spells
- Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe
- Climate Change and Famine
- Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health
- Climate Change and Health: A Framework for Action
- Extreme Heat Events
- Lesson 2: Who is most vulnerable? Learn about demographic groups and geographic regions who will experience greater health risk due to the effects of climate change
- Chapter 19: Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change
- Discussion question: Key Vulnerabilities
- Box 2.1 Steps in assessing vulnerability and adaptation
- Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change.
- Protecting health from climate change: Connecting science, policy and people
- Chapter 3. International consensus on the science of climate and health: the IPCC Third Assessment Report: Direct effects on health; Indirect effects on health
- Climate change and developing-country cities: Implications for environmental health and equity
- Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Guide for Health Departments
- Discussion question: Health Impact of wind, storm or flood
- Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 2.
- The Human Face of Climate Change
- Chapter 5. Analyzing regional aspects of climate change and water resources.
- Lesson 3: How can we protect human health from the effects of climate change? Learn about how to improve public health outcomes.
- Protecting the health of vulnerable people from the humanitarian consequences of climate change and climate related disasters: 3. Solutions: health governance, humanitarian assistance and the climate change agenda
- Mass casualty management systems: strategies and guidelines for building health sector capacity.
- Public health and weather services--climate information for the health sector
- "Health Indicators of disaster risk management in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development"
- Health Indicators of sustainable energy in the Context of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
- Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 3.
- Peer Activity: Case study: Protecting human health from the negative effects of climate change
- Lesson 1: How will climate change affect human health? Learn about ways that climate change is currently affecting human health, and predictions for future public health effects.
- Module 3: Predicting and communicating future climate change
- Lesson 1: How do we make predictions about climate change? Learn about terminology, models, and methodologies.
- Projections of future climate change.
- Climate Models and Global Climate Change
- Climate change 2007: Synthesis report
- Chapter 2: New assessment methods and the characterisation of future conditions: Box 2.2 The SRES global storylines and scenarios
- Chapter 4. Looking to the future: challenges for scientists studying climate change and health.
- Chapter 10. Monitoring the health effects of climate change.
- Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 1.
- Climate Change: An Uncertain Future
- NEX-DCP30 Home
- Lesson 2: How can we communicate effectively about climate change? Learn how to convey messages to the public and overcoming potential resistance.
- Communication and marketing as climate change--intervention assets: A public health perspective
- Changing Climate, Changing Minds: 8. Implications of media effects for climate change education
- Why we resist the truth about climate change
- Peer Activity: Learning to take action through letter writing
- Quiz: Module 3: Lesson 2.
- Chapter 2: New assessment methods and the characterisation of future conditions: 2.3.4 Communicating uncertainty and risk.
- Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change
- Lesson 1: How do we make predictions about climate change? Learn about terminology, models, and methodologies.
- Module 4: Taking action
- Lesson 1: What can we do to adapt to climate change? What we can do to live with the effects of climate change that have already occurred?
- Chapter 11. Adaptation and adaptive capacity in the public health context.
- Chapter 17: Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity: 17.2.3 Assessment of adaptation costs and benefits.
- Chapter 18: Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation: 18.4.3 Inter-relationships within regions and sectors.
- The U.S. Chamber: A record of obstruction on climate action
- Peer Activity: Create quiz questions
- Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 1.
- Limiting the Magnitude of & Adapting to Future Climate Change
- Optional Peer Activity: Policy Brief
- Drought Communication Toolkit
- Lesson 2: How do specific groups adapt to climate change? What we can learn from each other about how to adapt to climate change?
- Gender aspects of vulnerability and adaptive capacity.
- C.4 Indigenous knowledge for adaptation to climate change
- National Adaptation Programmes of Action: Summary of projects on health identified in submitted NaPAs as of September 2008.
- Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 2.
- Economic impact of climate change on Mumbai, India
- Database on local coping strategies
- Mentor Discussion #1: Talking about Community Adaptations to Climate Change
- Lesson 3: How can we mitigate the effects of climate change? Learn about actions we can take to stop global warming from getting worse.
- Chapter 12. From science to policy: developing responses to climate change.
- Health in the green economy: Co-benefits to health of climate change mitigation
- Innovation for Sustainable Development: Cows to kilowatts, Nigeria: Turning waste into energy and fertiliser.
- Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
- Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach
- One Flight vs All Year
- Quiz: Module 4: Lesson 3.
- Optional Peer Activity: Learning to take action through petitions
- Dr Erica Frank: Global Warming
- Growing greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production
- Health Co-benefits of Carbon Standards For Existing Power Plants
- Mentor discussion #2: Talking about Mitigation in Climate Change
- Capstone Activity: Organize an Event
- Lesson 1: What can we do to adapt to climate change? What we can do to live with the effects of climate change that have already occurred?
- Module 5: Additional Resources on Mitigating Climate Change (Optional)
- Final Exam
- Course Wrap up
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