Delivery Type	Delivery length / details
Lecture	20 Hours. 10 x 2 hours
Seminars / Tutorials	2 Hours. 5 x 2 hours

Assessment Type	Assessment length / details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	750 word seminar report. Course Work:	10%
Semester Assessment	2500 word assessed essay. Essay:	30%
Semester Assessment	10 minute seminar presentation. Presentation:	10%
Semester Exam	2 Hours Written examination.	50%
Supplementary Assessment	Resubmission of failed CA component. Resit failed examination.	50%
Supplementary Exam	2 Hours Re-sit: written examination	50%

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to :-

assess the relative importance of natural and anthropogenic factors responsible for catchment disturbance and river instability in both the Developed and Developing World.

evaluate and forecast the likely impact of changes in climate, land-use, pollution and engineering on rivers and catchment systems.

Aims

This module is designed for students to develop a conceptual, factual and practical knowledge of channel, floodplain and catchment response to environmental change over the last 20,000 years resulting from natural and anthropogenic perturbations.

Content

Drainage basin & river response to the last glacial-interglacial transition (18,000-10,000 BP):
Pleistocene context & inheritance in catchment dynamics

Britain & Northern Europe
Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean
Pleistocene river histories in the Mediterranean
Africa

River Environments & Holocene environmental change (10,000-300 BP)

Britain & Northern Europe
The Mediterranean
North America

River environments & recent environmental change (300 BP to present)

Flood histories in Britain in North America
Mountain river systems in the Old & New World
Heavy metals in river systems

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