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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

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change
  • Adaptation and Mitigation
  • Climate Change
  • Anthropocene
  • Environmental Hazards
  • Resilience
  • Natural Resources
  • Biodiversity
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Social-Ecological Systems
  • Human Impacts

Courses

  • GEO3334: Managing Climate Change
  • GEO2351: Geographical Sciences and Sustainability
  • GEO6375: Land Change Science Seminar
  • GEO6931: Seminar in Cultural and Political Ecology
  • GEO3352: Human Footprint on the Landscape
  • GEO4938/6938: Parks and People
  • GEO4300: Environmental Biogeography
  • GEO3372: Conservation Resources
  • GEO3341/6348: Extreme Floods
  • GEO3930: Extreme Droughts
  • GIS2002: The Digital Earth
  • GEO3930: Sea Level Variability and Change
  • GEO4938/6938: Communicating Science
  • GEO4938/6938: Weather, Climate and Society
  • GEO4285: Water, Risk, and Extreme Events
  • GEO4938/6938: Catastrophes, Tipping Points and Resilience