* mandatory
This programme provides a comprehensive advanced-level grounding in many areas of climate change and an opportunity to reflect on practice at both individual and corporate levels.
Year 1: Compulsory modules: Climate change (topics include fundamentals of the climate system and past changes over geological timescales; evidence for recent human-induced climate change; climate modelling and forecasting; climate change impacts on natural systems; mitigating human-induced climate change; adaptation strategies); climate change and sustainable business practice (topics include impacts of climate change on different sectors; carbon reporting and the carbon disclosure project; carbon in the supply chain; carbon footprinting and lifecycle analysis; financing a low-carbon economy; innovation for a low-carbon economy; cross-sector partnerships and the role of NGOs for a low-carbon economy); environment and policy (topics include carbon policy; governance; sustainability and the city; futures planning); research methods in management I (topics include philosophy and research approaches; research design and qualitative methods; case studies; survey design; descriptive statistics; inferential statistics: correlation, regression, hypothesis testing); Year 2: dissertation (MSc only); 2 option modules from: climate change and energy issues; cultural landscapes; introduction to geographic information science; environmental communication; readings in the environment (self-directed); other relevant modules from other Birkbeck courses.
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Oct |
1 years |
Part-time evening | No application date provided |
Camden, WC1E 7HX |
N/A |
£2700 per year |
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*More info: £2700 per year |
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Taught
University of London
Environmental Management, Environmental Science
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The decision to go Birkbeck was the best of my life! Having started out studying with the OU, I felt it was important to get practical, hands-on experience and to be able to interact with experts and other students. Birkbeck had all the adv...more
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