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Expand+Autumn Trimester - September to December
MODE OF DELIVERY: Blended
Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures 22
Specified Learning Activities 20
Autonomous Student Learning 58
Total 100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:...
Hide-Autumn Trimester - September to December
MODE OF DELIVERY: Blended
Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures 22
Specified Learning Activities 20
Autonomous Student Learning 58
Total 100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Module content is delivered as 20 lectures and 5 online learning exercises. The online learning elements are designed to deepen knowledge in selected areas and are also used to provide feedback to students via quizes. Assessment is by two MCQ tests (week 5 and end of semester), accounting for 40% and 60% of the marks respectively.
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| Course Content |
Expand+GEOL20180 Geoscience perspectives on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Academic Year 2022/2023
The United Nations has defined seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. At least half of these (e.g. clean water and sanitation, affordable and clea...
Hide-GEOL20180 Geoscience perspectives on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Academic Year 2022/2023
The United Nations has defined seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. At least half of these (e.g. clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure, responsible consumption and production, climate action, life below water, life on land, no poverty and zero hunger, sustainable cities and communities) have implications for how society exploits Earth’s resources (e.g. energy, freshwater, minerals, soils, metals). This module will provide Geoscience and Earth Systems perspectives on the opportunities, limitations and challenges that are likely to arise from the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Challenges include, but are not restricted to: raw material constraints (e.g. critical metals) in the transition to clean energy technologies, uncertainties in geohazard risk assessment (e.g. earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, floods) to underpin the development of sustainable cities and communities, the maintenance of soil and freshwater quality to help alleviate poverty and reduce hunger as the global population increases, how to integrate negative carbon emission strategies and technologies within a growth-focused economic model.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to: 1) Critically evaluate the extent to which the UN Sustainable Goals are achievable from an Earth system and finite-resource perspective, 2) Appreciate the inter-connections, dependencies and potential resource-related conflicts that may arise as the goals are simultaneously addressed, 3) Understand the timescales and rates at which Earth systems are likely to respond to measures to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation.
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