Recent Global Environmental Change (P01149)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : GEO-P-GECRGEC

This course aims to identify the main components of recent environmental change, and their causes. It will review research progress towards understanding the mechanisms, processes and interactions that underlie environmental change, and will identify critical research questions for development in the research project component of the course.

Entry Requirements

? Co-requisites : Seminars in Global Change Postgraduate students must take Seminars in Global Change. This does not apply to undergraduate students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences), (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
21/09/2006	14:00	15:00

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	17:00	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

- Understanding how the current anthropogenic changes compare with the previous natural changes
- Examining how land use has changed; changes in the carbon and nitrogen cycles and their likely consequences.
- Modelling global change and atmospheric behaviour.
- Reviewing the attempts to manage the global environment by international conventions.