| 1. Climate Adaptation and Resilience Literacy |
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Evaluate core concepts of climate adaptation and resilience with a critical lens to solve problems and make climate action recommendations |
- Demonstrate understanding of nature, causes, and impacts of climate change
- Depict systems interactions and dynamics related to climate change
- Describe implications of global climate change in terms of local and regional impacts
- Accurately apply core concepts
- Identify equity issues related to climate impacts
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| 2. Critical, creative and trans-disciplinary thinking |
| 2.2 |
Communicate effectively using coherent, synthesized, well organized, edited, logical and fully supported work |
- Construct clear presentations with logical structures and flows
- Explain complex information in appropriate language and style including plain language
- Develop well-supported arguments
- Organize material concisely, with appropriate citations
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| 3. Research Literacy |
| 3.1 |
Ask relevant, probing and detailed questions to deepen knowledge that informs arguments, choices, and practices |
- Question current approaches to adaptation, in order to improve practices
- Pose questions to better explore and understand data as a basis for evidence-based decision-making
- Critically examine the expression of complex regional climate information in climate reports and presentations to improve both accuracy and accessibility
- Solicit a variety of perspectives on a problem, including across disciplines
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| 3.3 |
Illustrate the use and limitations of information and theory in the field of climate adaptation |
- Identify reputable scientific and technical information
- Evaluate conclusions from scientific and technical sources
- Identify the limitations of climate data and models, and the implications of those limitations for decision-making
- Explore various perspectives on the human impacts on the climate system, including critical Indigenous and decolonial perspectives
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| 5. Communications and Knowledge Mobilization |
| 5.3 |
Mobilize knowledge to share, reuse and contribute to the commons |
- Synthesize complex ideas and factual information into readable and understandable material
- Make effective use of visuals (e.g., figures, images) and data to aid audience understanding
- Demonstrate the use of multiple types of media in knowledge mobilization
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| 6. Change Making Orientation |
| 6.1 |
Monitor and reflect on self-awareness, self-confidence, and perseverance to improve professional practice and policies |
- Demonstrate self-reflective awareness of various roles and mindsets in the emerging field of adaptation, including one’s own
- Improve professional practice, including facilitating a flow of ideas and contributions from oneself and others
- Acknowledge, challenge and shift one’s own perspective, assumptions and ideas through a learning process
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