Postgraduate Course: Recent Global Environmental Change (PGGE11076)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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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.
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Assessment Information
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof John Grace
Tel: (0131 6)50 5400
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Course secretary | Mrs Christine Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4866
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