Module Identifier | EA12110 | |||||||||||
Module Title | PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2004/2005 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Geoff Duller | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | |||||||||||
Other staff | Dr Geoff Duller, Dr Ronald Fuge | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours 1 HOUR LECTURES | ||||||||||
Other | 0 Hours Video Lecture. | |||||||||||
Assessment |
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Objectives
Students taking this course will be able to describe the nature of environmental change over a wide range of timescales. They will be capable of relating this information to current concerns about global environmental change. It will make them aware of the need to consider past records of change when planning future developments, or when assessing current environmental concerns.
Section 1 - Environmental Change on a Geological Time Scale
2) Origin of Earth and early formation processes
3) The geological time scale
4) Climate change/ice ages/mass extinctions over geological time
Section 2 - Environmental Change from the Pleistocene to Recent
5) Climate change through the Pleistocene to the Holocene
6) Historical records of change
Section 3 - Anthropogenically influenced environmental change
7) Geochemical cycling
8) Resource exploitation and exhaustion
9) Predicting future environmental change
This module is at CQFW Level 4