Educating teachers as if sustainability matters
The mission of teacher education has always been to empower teachers. How can we help teachers to empower their students through climate change?
Assessment of adaptation needs - Nepal
This report brings together various domains of climate-related knowledge activities by looking at: the institutional landscape policies; laws and regulations; knowledge generation and...
Conditions of applicability
It is clear that there is no 'one tool fits all' solution when assessing climate adaptation and different tools and methods are appropriate for different parts of the process. For example, the...
Adaptive Management and Learning Processes
Ojha et al, (2004) propose that adaptive management requires that there is learning through experience in a more conscious way, specifically by incorporating explicit learning into management...
Social Learning in Organisations
Goold (2006) describes barriers to learning in organisations as energy to be freed up rather than an obstacle to be overcome. In her paper she identifies a number of barriers to learning that...
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is part of the Russell Group of leading UK universities. We conduct interdisciplinary and impact-orientated research to address challenges at regional, nati
Goals
Some tools are used to achieve a particular goal. In this section, the tools have been classified according to three goals.
Social learning
Social learning develops the actors' ability to improvise; it requires investment in relationships and trust building, respect for difference and appreciation of other ways of seeing the world.
Communities of Practice
weADAPT is about planting the seed and nurturing the growth of a new community of practice: a group of people collecting around a shared concern and interested in how we adapt to climate change,...
