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
The information below is only for exchange students
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.
Required Knowledge
General entry requirements
Selection
Students applying for courses within a double degree exchange agreement, within the departments own agreements will be given first priority. Then will - in turn - candidates within the departments own agreements, faculty agreements, central exchange agreements and other departmental agreements be selected.
Application code
UMU-A5273
Application
This application round is only intended for nominated exchange students. Information about deadlines can be found in the e-mail instruction that nominated students receive.
The application period is closed.