Unit name | Contemporary Debates in Environment, Energy and Resilience |
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Unit code | LAWDM0108 |
Credit points | 15 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Morgan |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Design which underpins all four interdisciplinary SWDTC MRes programmes. |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
To critically assess contemporary theoretical and empirical debates in environment, energy and resilience.
To provide an understanding of how a range of research methods can be integrated to examine environmental and sustainability issues. To develop an appreciation of the importance of pertinent inter-disciplinary thinking.
Unit specific skills:
Discipline specific skills:
Personal and key skills:
Students and supervisors will attend 20 one hour seminars from the GWR and I-SEE programmes, plus four stand alone one hour tutorials with supervisor.
Formative development of draft group presentations; summative group presentations (40%
Summative individual 3,000 word essay (60%)
In 2011 content will be based on two sets of 10 seminars: the first delivered by the Great Western Research (GWR) Sustainability Theme and the second presented as part of the Bath Institute for Sustainable Energy and The Environment (I-SEE) seminar series. The GWR seminars are presented live via the Access grid to Bath, Bristol and Exeter. The I-SEE seminars are recorded and recordings are available to all three universities. The selection of seminars will be chosen by the supervisors in consultation with students from the relevant programme plus some from the seminar archives (where appropriate). Recent topics have included : Political Strategy and Climate Change (GWR); Sustainable Behaviour Change in Transport (GWR); Personal Carbon Trading (GWR); The Sustainable Carbon Management of Moorlands (GWR); Sustainability and Learning: What role for the Curriculum?( I-SEE); Low Carbon Energy 2050:Options and Implications for the UK ( I-SEE). Speakers include both leading academic researchers and policy makers. In subsequent years resources may be extended to include seminars run under the auspices of Bristol’s Cabot Institute and Exeter’s Centre for Energy and the Environment as appropriate.