Migration in a warming world: on the responsibility and.
This dissertation seeks to explore why and how cities face change in this context by revisiting the concepts of resilience, sustainability and transformability. It is structured in two parts. Part I focuses on conceptual analysis and explores the theories of resilience and transformation applied to urban systems, looking at how they relate and couple with urban sustainable development goals.
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for humanity (IPCC, 2014). If current trends of climate change greenhouse gas emissions are maintained, more severe and irreversible impacts for nature and humans will happen (Pecl et al., 2017).
The governance of climate change adaptation presents a paradox: Climate change is a global risk, yet vulnerability is locally experienced. In order to address this paradox, debates in environmental governance need to find ways of integrating local perceptions of risk with global risk assessments.
This world leading distance learning MSc programme consists of a core module in Climate Change and Development, three additional elective modules and a dissertation. The programme is taught over two years, with modules starting in October and April each year.
Jin successfully defended her thesis, Legal regulation of aircraft engine emissions in the age of climate change, and received the degree in June 2011. Jin taught Climate Change Law and Regulation at Queen Mary University of London in 2012, and is currently busy at home with her two sons Jamie and Harry.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool. Fisher, Adam (2019) The impact of intraspecific predation on individual fitness and population viability. Jenns, Caroline (2019) Understanding Emirati women’s reasons to study the STEM-related subject of engineering: Lessons from Dubai.
He began his research career with a PhD at the University of Leeds on boundary layer flow through forests. He then spent some years at Reading, conducting postdoctoral research on the impacts of climate variability and change on food crops. He returned to Leeds in 2007 to take up a Lectureship and initiate and lead the The Climate Impacts group.