SH0012 - ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

courses

ID:

SH0012

Duration (hours):

60

CFU:

SSD:

URBANISTICA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

SUSTAINABLE HABITAT SCIENCES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Course Objectives

General educational objectives of the course
The course intends to enable students to acquire:
- Basic knowledge related to environmental phenomena and the consequences of climate change on cities and territories.
- Skills related to the use of the main urban planning tools for the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
- Ability to interpret urban phenomena in their evolution and complexity.
- Ability to produce design solutions useful for countering the identified environmental criticalities.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies
The course on Adaptation to climate change combines moments of distance learning (e-learning mode) with face-to-face laboratory moments (workshop). It is divided into different teaching modules: Intro, Lessons, Tools, Case study. Each module has specific training objectives and learning methodologies, aimed at making the student acquire: sensitivity towards environmental issues; mastery with the tools of the urban planning discipline on the subject of climate change; capacity for critical and analytical elaboration of urban and territorial phenomena; knowledge of the phenomena that determine climate change and of the possibilities for mitigation and adaptation. The course offers students a dedicated section of the professor's website: www.paolofusero.it/didattica. The section contains an articulated set of online services such as the bulletin board, the mail box, the programmes, the calendar of activities, reservations, information, assessments of the tests, etc. From the site it is also possible to download the teaching material of all the lessons held by the professor. The course also uses a Facebook group used for quick exchanges of information between the teacher, tutors and students.
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Assessment Methods

Learning verification methods
The final assessment of the Urban Planning course is made up of the weighted average of the following assessments:
1) evaluation of the individual learning of the two modules Lessons and Tools carried out through a written test (intermediate delivery);
2) evaluation of the individual research on the case study chosen by the students (thesis submission);
4) overall evaluation of the student's commitment referring to the activities carried out in the classroom and at home.

Texts

Specific reference texts or web contents, useful for deepening the topics covered, are indicated by the teacher during the lessons.

The course is divided into the following teaching modules:
Intro. Introductory day to the course in which the program of activities, the teaching methodology and the staff of tutors who will help students develop the final thesis are presented.
Lessons Thematic lessons held by the professor which define the scientific contours within which the course moves, deepening general themes which constitute the basic knowledge for understanding the phenomenon of climate change.
tools. Specific lessons held by the professor that deepen the urban planning technique and the existing urban planning tools at national and international level for the adaptation to climate change of cities and territories.
Case Studies. Research activity carried out individually by students on national and international case studies deemed significant for adaptation to climate change. Each student writes an essay on a case study of her choice.