Module 1: Perspective
Welcome to Module 1, Perspective. In this Module you’ll have an opportunity to consider your perspective on climate change as a project manager, recognize valuable perspectives that others bring, and consider when and how an interdisciplinary approach can enhance project management for a changing climate.
This Module will help you:
- learn who is in the group, including the skills, backgrounds, knowledge and experience they can share that is relevant to climate change adaptation
- reflect on your motivation for considering climate change in your projects
- understand what’s different about managing projects in a changing climate
Readings and Resources
Foundational Readings
These provide background on climate change impacts and risks. They should be considered essential for those who have not taken the course Introduction to Climate Change with Dr. Stewart Cohen and recommended for others. Focus on Executive Summaries.
Required readings for Module 1 activities – also included in course content
Perspective from UK professional: Climate change and project management: Re-thinking the relationship, Peter W.G. Morris (2017), https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/climate-change-and-project-management-re-thinking-the-relationship/
Perspective from US PM association leader: Thoughts on Climate Change and Project Management, Joel Carboni (2017) https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/PMRP/article/view/5462/5854
Perspective from European Financing Institutions: Integrating Climate Change Information and Adaptation in Project Development, Emerging Experience from Practitioners https://www.ebrd.com/what-we-do/get/integrating-climate-change-adaptation-in-project-development.pdf
Perspective: The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change James D. Ford, Nia King, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Tristan Pearce, Graham McDowell, and Sherilee L. Harper, https://www.cell.com/one-earth/pdfExtended/S2590-3322(20)30250-5
Required for all modules
Other resources with additional perspectives
Low Carbon Resilience: Best Practices For Professionals, Final Report (2018) Adaptation to Climate Change Team, SFU Faculty of Environment. https://act-adapt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/lcr_best_practices_final.pdf (especially pages 8-16)
Adaptive Management in Climate Change Adaptation, Fact sheet undated, Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Resources. http://climateontario.ca/doc/factsheets/AdaptiveManagement-final.pdf
Uncertainty, Climate Change, and Adaptive Management, Conservation Ecology, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1997) Garry Peterson, Giulio Alessandro De Leo, Jessica J. Hellmann, Marco A. Janssen, Ann Kinzig, Jay R. Malcolm, Karen L. O’Brien, Shealagh E. Pope, Dale S. Rothman, Elena Shevliakova and Robert R.T. Tinch, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26271660
Adaptive Management and Climate Change Adaptation: Two Mutually Beneficial Areas of Practice (2019) David Marmorek, Marc Nelitz, Jimena Eyzaguirre, Carol Murray, Clint Alexander, Paper No. JA