Background and Rationale

Climate change (CC) is an important situation of the world and many countries or areas are affected in many problems such as livelihoods, agriculture, disasters, health, economy, natural resources and social community. The ways focused for solve these problem are mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and adaptation to CC. Mitigation of GHGs must mainly use many sections of social structure connecting with economy including, national policy, industrial part and energy part together that is not easily motivate. Adaptation is easy for action, main requirement is community cooperation for solve problems.

The areas which have capacity or readiness for adapt can avoid these problems or resilience to CC but the areas which cannot adapt, they must lose by CC effects. Therefore, the vulnerable areas should be build capacity on climate change adaptation (CCA). The effects are difference depending many conditions of each area so that, human resource of each area must be developed or trained to know and understand in the integrating knowledge or multidisciplinary for risk assessment, identification specific problems and design CCA of areas.

Chulalongkorn University is the oldest and most reputable academic institute of Thailand abounding many academic programs, knowledge institutes, research innovations, human resource, many facilities and both cooperation in domestic and international level. The Center of Excellence for Climate Change Knowledge Management (CCKM) is organized under Faculty of Science, which has mission to collect, synthesize and disseminate knowledge on CC to support strategic planning of government agencies, private sector as well as local community, with aim to strengthen coping capacity to climate risk and CCA and therefore has the capability of giving training courses in an international level.

This is a good opportunity to share and learn about CCA in Thailand. There are many organizations or institutes for training and sharing in knowledge, technology and experiences that can be used in risk management and CCA planning for sustainable development of communities.

Duration: August 20 - 29, 2012

Closing Date for Application: May 20, 2012

Number of Participants:  20 persons

Invited Countries : Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, China, CARICOM Member Countries, Egypt, Ethiopia, FEALAC Member Countries, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, OAS Member Countries, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, PIF Member Countries (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Cook Island, Solomon Island, Marshall Island, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu), Republic of Seychelles, Senegal, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Vietnam, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Thailand

Participants Criteria
Applicants must fulfill the following requirement:
      1. should be nominated by their respective government
      2. Thirty to fifty (30-50) years old
      3. High interesting and good basic knowledge in CC or related field
      4. Education : bachelor degree or higher
      5. Working in related experience
      6. Should be in good health both physically and mentally, each participant should have a health certificate provided by an authorized physician. This form is also attached together with the Nomination Form. Pregnancy is regarded as a disqualifying condition for participation in the course.

Objectives

The course aims to:

To share and learn knowledge about climate change adaption.
To encourage and increase human resource and networks development on climate change adaptation.
To promote and realize planning for sustainable development in context of climate change. 
To enable participants to share their folk wisdom, culture, belief, tradition and values.
Course Contents

I. Course Outline

Introduction
Introduction to CC and CCA
Strategy Development and Planning for CCA
Legal Framework for CCA
Impact of CC to Social Structure
Economic Sector
Agriculture
Natural Resources
Migration and Disasters
Knowledge Resources for CCA
Climate Modeling Climate Forecasting and Applied technogies for CC Monitoring
Vulnerability Assessment
Uncertainties and Risk Management
Capacity Building for CCA
Case Study
Samut Sakhon Province)
Krabi
Chi-Moon river basins
Overall Conclusion and Evaluation
II Practices

    Lecture, excursions, discussions and presentation

III. Study Trips/ Field Trips

     Samut Sakhon, Samut Prakarn, Krabi, etc.

IV. Advance Assignments
Participants are requested to prepare a country report pertaining to the climate change and adaptation in their respective countries. The report should contain:

General information of country (location, government administration system, population, map, natural resources, Social and economic background etc.)

General information of participant (name, nationality, job position and organization)

Existing laws and regulations concerning the subject (if any)

Existing problem in the applicant's section

Historical background of  the subject related to the training course

Future program/ project on related subject
Institution:

The course will be conducted by:

Center of Excellence for Climate Change Knowledge Management (CCKM)
Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University
Temporary Office) 5th Floor, Chulawich 1 Building,
Henri Dunant Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
Tel: +662-218-9464-8, Fax: +662-218-9463
E-mail: [email protected] , [email protected]
Website: www.sc.chula.ac.th, www.cckm.or.th