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GEO104: Living In A Global World
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The module explores the impacts of globalisation in twenty-first century. It considers the ways in which it has shaped social, economic and cultural relations at a variety of scales. The module particularly focuses on five facets of globalisation: place, society, identity, development and security and considers the ways in which these have been shaped and transformed by globalisation in a number of different contexts from global cities to remote rural areas. It moves through a variety of scales from the relationships of the individual to their environment and everyday world through regional, national and international formations to eventually considering questions of global economic and social systems, threats and security. These questions are explored in both developed and developing world contexts. The module approaches the issues from multiple perspectives and examines the relationships between and contributions of a variety of social science disciplines to understanding the processes of globalisation and their impacts.
GEO301: Global Futures
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This module is concerned with analysing competing environmental philosophies and applying them to understanding a particular global sustainability issue. The nature of different environmental philosophies will be discussed at the beginning of the module along with methods for the futures studies. Most of the time will, however, be spent in working on defining and analysing a particular global sustainability issue, applying the philosophies to understanding the issue and coming up with policy recommendations. The work will be undertaken in groups, each of which will produce a consultancy project and will make a presentation of their findings to the 'clients'. Tutorial support will be given on researching the issue, working in teams and presenting the findings.
GEO305: Climate Change
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The rate, magnitude and direction of climate change are of concern across the global, political and economic arenas. While this module does not involve detailed policy issues, it covers an understanding of climate change together with the factors responsible for forcing the climate and controlling the magnitude and tempo of past (and future) shifts. Only by understanding past shifts can there be informed insight into future climate changes and their consequences, and so this module examines contemporary and recent observations in the broader context of major shifts in Earth's past climates as an indicator of sensitivity to change. Climate models, their construction, use and validation, are also covered.
LW305: World Human Rights
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Introduction to human rights in an international context; historical development of human rights; theories of human rights; standard setting including global organisations and regional organisations; the European Convention on Human Rights; the Human Rights Act 1998.