? 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.

? Co-requisites : Seminars in Global Change

Home subject area

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

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Block 1 only

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

All of the following classes

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

- 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.

Coursework assessment
Examination

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST December 1 - 1 hour(s) 30 minutes

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Consuelo Fox
Tel : (0131 6)50 6708
Email : connie.fox@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof John Grace
Tel : (0131 6)50 5400
Email : j.grace@ed.ac.uk

Course Website : http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/05-06/course.php?code=P01149

School Website : http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/