Week 5 Use of key subject Students will understand and be discussion to specific and technical able to analyse the concept of establish understanding of Human impacts on cold environments terminology like fragility”. fragility” and – “environmental “environmental Concept of environments”. “fragile “fragile Students will be able to categorise environmental fragility. environment”. the impacts of humans in cold Opportunity to research the Human impacts on fragile Possible opportunity environments. may include: human impacts in cold cold environments over to conduct fieldwork Global warming environments, followed by time and at a variety of to investigate the Pollution exercise to categorise such scales. Recent and impacts of people on Development of impacts. prospective impact of cold environments infrastructure Opportunity for a group climate change. and assess Economic activity research and presentation Management of cold management Introduction of exercise. Each individual/ environments at present approaches. alien/invasive species. group has to research human and in alternative on climate change in the Arctic Online research. Students will understand that the impacts for a particular time possible futures. way different groups of people and scale. Individuals report UNESCO report on Handling primary and have used/interacted with different back. Impacts for different secondary sources of cold environments has different times and scales are collated. information. levels of impact, in the context of: Opportunity to practice To use a range of GIS Different times Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition – extended prose exam including climate historically, present, future questions to assess the change models and Different cold changing nature of human remotely sensed environments impacts over time. data. Different scales local, – Information on the future sustainability of Q&A/discussion to assess regional, national, Construct and Antarctica understanding of the natural international. interpret a range of Vs human enhanced climate graphical and Students will understand current change. statistical techniques. and future issues relating to natural Opportunity to research and enhanced climate change. In current observable impacts terms of: of climate change in cold Causes Natural Vs Human – environments, followed by Impacts Observable, – research into predicted predicted and now future impacts. Findings occurring, predicted future could be shared using a change. display or electronic Students will understand that just as there are a variety of cold
Week 5 Human impacts on cold environments Concept of environmental fragility. Human impacts on fragile cold environments over time and at a variety of scales. Recent and prospective impact of climate change. Management of cold environments at present and in alternative possible futures. Use of key subject specific and technical terminology – like “fragile environment”. Possible opportunity to conduct fieldwork to investigate the impacts of people on cold environments and assess management approaches. Online research. Handling primary and secondary sources of information. To use a range of GIS including climate change models and remotely sensed data. Construct and interpret a range of graphical and statistical techniques. Students will understand and be able to analyse the concept of “environmental fragility”. Students will be able to categorise the impacts of humans in cold environments. may include: Global warming Pollution Development of infrastructure Economic activity Introduction of alien/invasive species. Students will understand that the way different groups of people have used/interacted with different cold environments has different levels of impact, in the context of: Different times – historically, present, future Different cold environments Different scales – local, regional, national, international. Students will understand current and future issues relating to natural and enhanced climate change. In terms of: Causes – Natural Vs Human Impacts – Observable, predicted and now occurring, predicted future change. Students will understand that just as there are a variety of cold discussion to establish understanding of “environmental fragility” and “fragile environments”. Opportunity to research the human impacts in cold environments, followed by exercise to categorise such impacts. Opportunity for a group research and presentation exercise. Each individual/ group has to research human impacts for a particular time and scale. Individuals report back. Impacts for different times and scales are collated. Opportunity to practice extended prose exam questions to assess the changing nature of human impacts over time. Q&A/discussion to assess understanding of the natural Vs human enhanced climate change. Opportunity to research current observable impacts of climate change in cold environments, followed by research into predicted future impacts. Findings could be shared using a display or electronic on climate change in the Arctic UNESCO report on Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition Information on the future sustainability of Antarctica
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