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Postgraduate Course: Recent Global Environmental Change (PGGE11076)

This course will be closed from 13 January 2017

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/05-06/course.php?code=P01149
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf John Grace
Tel: (0131 6)50 5400
Email: j.grace@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Christine Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4866
Email: Christine.Wilson@ed.ac.uk
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