Last modified: 20 Jun 2025 15:06
This course will introduce students to contemporary environmental issues at various temporal and spatial scales, and will explore associated environmental management challenges. Students will learn about different conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of environmental challenges and they will explore the key drivers of environmental challenges from local to global scales. Lecturers will draw on their own research experience and use case studies to illustrate many of these issues.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Part 1: Concepts and theory (e.g. overview of sustainability, ecosystem services, conceptualising 'nature', landscape)
Part 2: Key drivers of global enviroment challenges (e.g. relationships between climate change and economic development, global enviromental management)
Part 3: Case studies in, for example, food security; energy; freshwater and marine resources; ; landscape management.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
48 hours to complete |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate scientific, policy and management approaches used to help resolve some current environmental issues. |
| Conceptual | Understand | To develop a broad, critical understanding of conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of environmental challenges |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
1,500-word policy brief |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | To analyse the key physical and societal drivers of environmental challenges from local to global scales |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate scientific, policy and management approaches used to help resolve some current environmental issues. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
A resit (with the same format to the main diet) of 48-hour-take-home-exam. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
1,500-word policy brief on a different topic to that used for the main diet |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | To develop a broad, critical understanding of conceptual and theoretical approaches to the study of environmental challenges |
| Conceptual | Analyse | To analyse the key physical and societal drivers of environmental challenges from local to global scales |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | To evaluate scientific, policy and management approaches used to help resolve some current environmental issues. |
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