Mapping Changing Ecosystems: Understanding Our Impact on the Natural Environment
7.5 credits
Bachelor's level
Web-based (online)
Spring Term 2024
About the course
The course will use a particular case study area to explore its value in human culture, natural resources of the past and future, ecosystems and impact on climate regulation on a planetary and future-oriented scale. We will use collective research and mapping to bring information together in an innovative way, to point out conflicts of interest and symbiotic relationships, in order to gain a deeper understanding of what is really happening in some of the most precious natural environments on our planet. We will chart their value to understand the dangers they are facing and how we might balance them. The course will touch on radical cartographies, analyse value systems; such as ecosystem services, the wealth economy, embedded carbon footprint and modern slavery supply chains. We will analyse and map the relationships between biodiversity, human labour management, geo-capitalism and the value of clean natural resources such as freshwater and oxygen. The output of the course will be a set of large complex drawings and models which will present these interrelations combining latest data modelling techniques, input from experts living and working with communities on the ground, the analysis of historic information and first-hand contemporary narratives.
Mapping Changing Ecosystems: Understanding Our Impact on the Natural Environment, 7.5 credits
Spring Term 2024
Starts
15 January 2024
Ends
2 June 2024
Study location
Varied
Language
English
Type of studies
Daytime,
25%,
Distance
Number of mandatory meetings
No mandatory meetings.
Number of other meetings
None
Outline for distance course
The course will be taught 100 percent online and will involve participation in collective research and collaborative drawing through weekly workshops. This will be carried on in self-directed project work in groups. The forms of teaching will combine lectures, seminars, practical exercises, individual/group tutorials and group discussions.
Results-National university aptitude test-Academic credits
Applicants in some programs at Umeå University have guaranteed admission to this course. The number of places for a single course may therefore be limited.
Application code
UMU-52708
Application
Application deadline was
16 October 2023.
The application period is closed.
Application and tuition fees
As a citizen of a country outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees for studies at Umeå University.