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Geography · Grade 12

Climate, Risk and Regional Planning

Planners must make long-lived decisions about coasts, rivers and cities under an uncertain climate. Learners read climate projections as ranges across scenarios and identify sources of uncertainty, estimate how sea-level rise changes flood frequency and exposure, compare adaptation options — protect, accommodate, retreat, ecosystem-based measures and adaptive pathways — while watching for maladaptation, and combine cost–benefit reasoning with discounting and equity to judge a regional plan.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 minutes
  • Climate risk and planning check: 11 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Interpret climate projections as ranges across emissions scenarios and identify the main sources of uncertainty.
  • Estimate how sea-level rise and other changes alter flood frequency, probability and exposure.
  • Compare adaptation options (protect, accommodate, retreat, ecosystem-based, adaptive pathways) and identify maladaptation.
  • Evaluate regional adaptation plans using benefit–cost ratios, discounting and equity.

Lessons

  1. Reading climate projections 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Sea-level rise and flood frequency 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Adaptation options 6 steps4 practiceabout 35 min
  4. Costs, benefits and fairness 6 steps3 practiceabout 35 min
  5. Climate risk and planning check 11 questions at the end

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