GG4571: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (2020-2021)

This course delves into the environmental changes that have occurred since the end of the last ice age 14,000 years ago (the Lateglacial and the Holocene). We will explore the evidence used to reconstruct past environments from proxy records preserved in archives such as peat bogs and the ice cores that suggest that climate and environmental conditions have been far from stable. Our discussion of the evidence will show that the Lateglacial and Holocene are characterised by a series of major but short-lived climatic oscillations as well as permanent transformations as a result of increasing pressure as human population has developed.

• Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4

• One of AY3006 Geoarchaeology: Approaches to Past Human-Environment Interactions (Passed) or AY3018 Geoarchaeology: Approaches to Past Human-Environmental Interactions Dl (Passed) or AY4006 Geoarchaeology: Approaches to Past Human-Environment Interactions (Studied) or GG3569 Techniques in Physical Geography (Passed) or GG3575 Techniques in Physical Geography (Passed)
• Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
• Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4