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Students successfully completing the module will:
1) Acquire an understanding of social dimensions of climate change and engage with key concepts, debates, and issues;
2) Display competence in interpreting and analysing theoretical, methodological and empirical work on social dimensions of climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective;
3) Reflect and critically analyse social dimensions of climate change;
4) Identify key issues and consider possible solutions from a comparative and global perspectives.
Global Responses to Climate Change will cover the following topics from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective:
• Concepts, sociological theories and social dimensions of climate change;
• Environmental inequality;
• Global governance, policy approaches and climate change (including SDGs);
• Climate-induced migration;
• Social movements and social acceptance;
• Climate change, pollution and health;
• Consumerism, consumption and waste;
• Climate change and ‘green technologies’;
• Sustainability;
• Social life cycle assessment (sLCA).
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 22 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 228 |
Total | 250 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: 3,000 word essay. Further instructions will be given in the first lecture. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 70 |
Presentation: In-class presentation on a social dimension of climate change. Further instructions will be given in the first lecture. | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Individual, written feedback will be provided through the VLE. Additional feedback is available during office hours.