Environmental Sustainability Modules

The Environmental Sustainability modules listed below will be offered in academic year 2012-2013. Please note that the modules listed may be subject to change and that final module selection will depend on academic approval of your module choice at both the point of application and the academic advising session before Matriculation.

Level 4

TP42004 Climate Change: Societal and Organisational Responses

30 credits, Semester 1
Climate change is seen as the most important phenomenon currently to affect our planet and runaway global warming threatens the continued existence of human life on the earth. The module examines the science, impacts and responses to climate change of societies and organisations around the globe. Concepts such as mitigation, adaptation, transition, resilience and behaviour change will all be explored. A number of practitioner-inputs will also be provided.

EV41005 - Environmental Change, Natural Resource Use and Sustainability

30 credits, Semester 1
This module provides students with a broad understanding of the theory of resource use and abuse and considers the practical application of resource management principles.

TP42011 – Dissertation

60 credits, year long
This module allows students to undertake an extended study (8,000 to 10,000 words) of a topic or problem which has relevance to the study of environmental sustainability. This process will involve both theoretical and empirical knowledge and argument.

TP41004 - Community Governance

30 credits, Semester 1
This option critically examines key aspects of theory and practice associated with community governance, community based planning and neighbourhood management.

EV42001 - Coastal and Estuarine Geoscience

30 credits, Semester 2
This option examines coastal and estuarine environments: relationships between coastal and estuarine processes and pollution, physical and geomorphological processes of coastal and estuarine environments and geophysical investigations of the nearshore zone.