Lutgart Lenaerts has an interdisciplinary background within culture and development studies, and bio-engineering in land and forest management. Her research is at the interface of climate change adaptation and humanitarian interventions, both in pastoral and agricultural areas in Ethiopia. She currently leads the Ethiopia case study of the NFR-funded research project 'Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian policy and practice in a changing climate'. This project has case studies in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, and Zambia, and 12 project partners. Lutgart conducts her research in Ethiopia and is particularly interested in climate change adaptation, climate change transformation and social-ecological interactions in natural resource management within the frameworks of development studies and political ecology. She has taught the Master course Climate Change and Development at Noragric for the past three years.
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Arbeidsområder
- Climate change adaptation
- Humanitarian interventions
- Social-environmental interactions in natural resource management
- Development studies
- Transformations
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Publikasjoner
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Undervisning
EDS 355 Climate Change and Development
This course covers the following topics:
1. Climate and development linkages : Different approaches to understanding climate change (CC)- society interactions.
2. How are we transforming the climate? : Multiple stressors and tipping points; sources of and growth in emissions (including nitrogen transformation, methane and carbon dioxide).
3. How do we live with CC? : Interaction between climate change, poverty and livelihoods; the political dimensions of CC; the role of disaster risk reduction in responding sustainably to CC; local perspectives, community-based adaptation, and the role of local institutions; ethics in CC: principles versus politics.
4. How do we transform? : Transformative change versus responding to change; carbon footprint and lifecycle assessment; the low emission society and its political measures; the Kyoto protocol and clean development mechanisms; adapting agriculture to climate change; future climate agreements.
Furthermore, this course contains documentaries and debates, student seminars, a term paper writing session, and the participatory CC game CAULDRON.
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Forskning & prosjekt
Forskningsområder
Tema:
- Klima
- Samfunn
- Utvikling