In this module, students gain a knowledge and understanding of 1) the value of everyday life as revealing something crucial about socio-spatial identities and relations, and 2) the different theoretical approaches to examining the geographies of ‘the ordinary’. In sum, students explore critically and reflexively – including through one’s own biography and positionality – the social and cultural geographies of political economy.
You will learn about the ways in which water can become polluted. You will understand the concepts of water pollution control, the treatment of waters and waste waters, and will be introduced to water and quality analytics.
You will apply theory and concepts to an understanding of the real world through preparation for a field trip and completion of a fieldwork study in a specific area. You will study topics including glacial landform interpretation, river hydrology, and sedimentology.
Please note, this module includes a field trip. By choosing this module you may be subject to an additional charge. For further details please speak to your Faculty exchange co-ordinator.
You will explore the nature of past environments, focussing on the Quaternary Period (the last 2.6 million years), from an understanding of available geological, palaeoenvironmental and historical evidence. You will learn about the biogeographic impacts of environmental change, including impacts on society.
Field visits, lectures, seminars and audio-visual material will enhance your ability to understand the technology and the legal and policy frameworks for energy and waste management. You will identify and characterise the principal types of waste materials, their value as resources and the opportunities presented by landfill sites, learn to evaluate the different routes of energy generation and transformation, including energy from waste, and consider the implications of such technologies for the environment.
You will develop a critical understanding of processes of global development and change, both historically and in the contemporary era, as constituted and remade through relations of power (including ideological, economic and political) at a range of geographical scales.
You will develop a knowledge and understanding of contemporary globalisation phenomena and processes at a range of scales (from the local, national, regional to global). Current globalisation will be compared to global developments from earlier historical periods.
You will apply theory and concepts to an understanding of the real world through preparation for a field trip and completion of a fieldwork study in a specific area. You will study glacial landscapes and upland environments, the regeneration of industrial landscapes and carry out your own field research project.
Please note, this module includes a field trip. By choosing this module you may be subject to an additional charge. For further details please speak to your Faculty exchange co-ordinator.
You will explore the nature of past environments, focussing on the Quaternary Period (the last 2.6 million years), from an understanding of available geological, palaeoenvironmental and historical evidence. You will learn about the evidence for environmental change and the drivers of environmental change at a range of timescales.
You will look at the development and dynamics of fluvial systems. You will develop an ability to identify the processes responsible for catchment morphology and to understand the basic mechanics of water flow and sediment transport within the catchment under a variety of conditions. Lectures will explore sediment dynamics from source to sink.