This course is compulsory on the BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics. This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography and BSc in International Relations. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is compulsory on the BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics. This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography and BSc in International Relations. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
In the Department of Geography and Environment, teaching will be delivered through a combination of classes/seminars, pre-recorded lectures, live online lectures, in-person lectures and other supplementary interactive live activities. ? This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures across Michaelmas and Lent Term. ? This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Michaelmas Term and Week 6 of Lent Term.
Students will be expected to produce 2 pieces of coursework in the MT and LT. One essay/report in MT, one mock exam essay in LT
No one book or small group of books adequately covers the themes considered in the course, and separate reading lists are provided for each distinct part of the syllabus. Basic reading material includes: ? T. Forsyth, Critical Political Ecology; The Politics of Environmental Science, 2003; A. Goudie (Ed), The Human Impact Reader, 6th edition, 2006; M. K. Hill, Understanding Environmental Pollution, 1997; J. Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 5th edition, 2015; M. Hulme, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, 2009; A.M. Mannion, Dynamic World: Land Cover and Land-Use Change, 2002; G. T. Miller (Ed), Living in the Environment, 2000; K. Smith, Environmental Hazards, 2001; United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP Yearbook 2015, 2015; M. Whitehead, Environmental Transformations, 2014.
Exam (60%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. Assignment (40%) in the LT. Students may choose their assignment as either an environmental monitoring report (3000 words) or a summative essay (3000 words).