| Module Identifier |
GG30420 |
| Module Title |
RIVER SYSTEMS AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE |
| Academic Year |
2001/2002 |
| Co-ordinator |
Professor Mark Macklin |
| Semester |
Semester 2 |
| Pre-Requisite |
GG22510 |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hours |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 2 Hours 5 x 2 hours
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| Assessment |
Presentation | 10 minute seminar presentation. | 10% |
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Course work | 500 word seminar report. | 10% |
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Essay | 2500 word assessed essay. | 30% |
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Exam | 2 Hours Written examination. | 50% |
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Resit assessment | Resubmission of failed CA component. Resit failed examination. | |
Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students should be able to :-
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assess the relative importance of natural and anthropogenic factors responsible for catchment disturbance and river instability in both the Developed and Developing World.
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evaluate and forecast the likely impact of changes in climate, land-use, pollution and engineering on rivers and catchment systems.
Module Outline (Lecture Themes)
Drainage basin & river response to the last glacial-interglacial transition (18,000-10,000 BP):
Pleistocene context & inheritance in catchment dynamics
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Britain & Northern Europe
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Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean
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Pleistocene river histories in the Mediterranean
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Africa
River Environments & Holocene environmental change (10,000-300 BP)
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Britain & Northern Europe
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The Mediterranean
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North America
River environments & recent environmental change (300 BP to present)
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Flood histories in Britain in North America
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Mountain river systems in the Old & New World
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Heavy metals in river systems
Module 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.
Reading Lists
Articles
** Recommended Text
Macklin, M. G. & Lewin, J.. (1997)
'Channel, floodplain and drainage basin response to environmental change'. Pages 14-45 in: Applied Fluvial Geomorphology for River Engineering and Management, Edited by C.R. Thorne, R.D. Hey & M.D.Newson. Chichester & John Wiley & Sons