Unit name | Environmental Risks, Management and Policy |
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Unit code | GEOG30015 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Jo House |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
none |
Co-requisites |
Available to year-three Geography and year- four Geography with Study Aboard/Continental Europe students only. |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit will explore some of the complex issues associated with environmental changes that are either occurring now or predicted to occur in the future. This will include detection of environmental risks and attribution to different drivers. It will explore management of risk through adaptation and mitigation. Many of these issues represent a complex mix between natural science and the social sciences, requiring understanding of the physical causes and consequences as well as the legal, economic and political responses.
The course will consist of an introduction and conclusion lecture, and have four components:
On completion of this Unit students should be able to:
The following transferable skills are developed in this Unit:
Lectures & practical sessions
Final Exam 50%
Policy Briefing Report 30%
Practical Assessment 20%
IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Edenhofer, O., R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, E. Farahani, S. Kadner, K. Seyboth, A. Adler, I. Baum, S. Brunner, P. Eickemeier, B. Kriemann, J. Savolainen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow, T. Zwickel and J.C. Minx (eds) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
IPCC (2012), Summary for Policymakers. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation Rep., Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA.
Bell, McGillivray and Pedersen, (2013) Environmental Law, Oxford University Press
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Hirabayashi, Y., R. Mahendran, S. Koirala, L. Konoshima, D. Yamazaki, S. Watanabe, H. Kim, and S. Kanae (2013), Global flood risk under climate change, Nature Clim. Change, 3(9), 816-821.
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