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Key Questions |
What are the world’s major climates? How do they relate to biomes? |
What are the issues resulting from climate change? |
What are the hydrological processes associated with drainage basins? |
What are the processes associated with plate tectonics? |
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What are the temporal patterns of climate change? |
What strategies can be used to address climate change? |
What are the causes and consequences of flooding? |
What hazards are associated with plate tectonics? |
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What are the causes of climate change |
How successful are strategies in tackling climate change? |
How is the flood hazard perceived and managed within a drainage basin? |
How are tectonic hazards perceived and managed? |
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Main Ideas |
· Weather and climate
· Global patterns of climate and vegetation
· Short and long term climate change (El Nino, glaciation)
· Evidence for change (sea level change, glacial retreat)
· The Greenhouse Effect
· Milankovich Cycles |
· Ecosystem response to climate change
· Extreme weather events
· Sea level change
· Impacts of climate change on people
· The Kyoto Protocol
· Agenda 21 local policies
· Carbon footprints |
· The hydrological cycle in the drainage basin system
· River regimes
· Flood (Storm) hydrographs
· Physical and human causes of flooding (2 events)
· The impacts of flooding (physical, demographic, economic and social)
· Flood Management
· Fieldwork |
· Plate tectonics
· Hazards associated with volcanoes and earthquakes
· Impacts of hazards on people, society and the economy
· Awareness of hazards
· Hazard management |
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Case Studies |
El Nino – Peru, Australia, Indonesia?
Kyoto Protocol
UK
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River Severn (UK)
River Mississippi (USA)
River Rhone (Switzerland/France)
River Limpopo (Mozambique |
Mt. Etna Volcano (Italy)
Kobe Earthquake (Japan)
Nevada del Ruiz (Colombia)
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