Focus Area 6: Sustainability & Global Environmental Change
Major contemporary issues in global environmental change and sustainability are increasingly relevant for environmental management and development practice in both the developed and developing worlds. Global socio-ecological problems call for multidisciplinary solutions that transcend the usual boundaries of science and decision-making.
Sub-areas
- Resilience
- Biodiversity
- Sea Level Rise
- Anthropocene
- Climate Change
- Human Impacts
- Urban Geography
- Natural Resources
- Wildlife Conservation
- Environmental Hazards
- Adaptation and Mitigation
- Social-Ecological Systems
- Land Use and Land Cover Change
Courses
- GIS 2002 The Digital Earth
- GEO 2230 Living with Rising Seas
- GEO 2351 Geographical Sciences and Sustainability
- GEO 3222 Sea Level Science
- GEO 3334 Managing Climate Change
- GEO 3341/6348 Extreme Floods
- GEO 3343 Extreme Droughts
- GEO 3352 Human Footprint on the Landscape
- GEO 3372 Conservation Resources
- GEO 4034 Weather, Climate and Society
- GEO 4060 Parks and People
- GEO 4281 River Forms and Processes
- GEO 4285 Water, Risk, and Extreme Events
- GEO 4300 Environmental Biogeography
- GEO 4938 Catastrophes, Tipping Points and Resilience