Environmental Change, Impact and Adaptation

This course is a multi-disciplinary programme that addresses the challenges that climatic and other environmental changes pose to society. It draws on world-leading expertise in the department in both the natural and social sciences to cover a range of topics including: desertification; terrestrial carbon cycles; flooding; risk management; records of palaeo-environmental change; environmental hazards; policy response; sea-level rise and the impacts of warming and changing rainfall on ecosystem processes.