Mollyidean

Notes on: - Factors in natural population change: the demographic transition model, key vital rates, age–sex composition; cultural controls. Models of natural population change, and their application in contrasting physical and human settings. Concept of the Demographic Dividend. - International migration: refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants: environmental and socio-economic causes, processes. Demographic, environmental, social, economic, health and political implications of ...

Notes on: - Global patterns of health, mortality and morbidity. Economic and social development and the epidemiological transition. - The relationship between environment variables eg climate, topography (drainage) and incidence of disease. Air quality and health. Water quality and health. - The global prevalence, distribution, seasonal incidence of one specified biologically transmitted disease, eg malaria; its links to physical and socio-economic environments including impacts of en...

Notes on: - Global and regional patterns of food production and consumption. Agricultural systems and agricultural productivity. Relationship with key physical environmental variables – climate and soils. - Characteristics and distribution of two major climatic types to exemplify relationships between climate and human activities and numbers. Climate change as it affects agriculture. - Characteristics and distribution of two key zonal soils to exemplify relationship between soils and ...

Notes on: The environmental context for human population characteristics and change. Key elements in the physical environment: climate, soils, resource distributions including water supply. Key population parameters: distribution, density, numbers, change. Key role of development processes. Global patterns of population numbers, densities and change rates.

Notes on: - The nature and importance of places - Changing places – relationships, connections, meaning and representation - Place studies

Notes on: - Globalisation - Global systems - International trade and access to markets - Global governance - The global 'commons'

Notes on: Nature of wildfires. Conditions favouring intense wild fires: vegetation type, fuel characteristics, climate and recent weather and fire behaviour. Causes of fires: natural and human agency. Impacts: primary/secondary, environmental, social, economic, political. Short and long-term responses; risk management designed to reduce the impacts of the hazard through preparedness, mitigation, prevention and adaptation. Impact and human responses as evidenced by a recent wild ...

Notes on: Earth structure and internal energy sources. Plate tectonic theory of crustal evolution: tectonic plates; plate movement; gravitational sliding; ridge push, slab pull; convection currents and seafloor spreading. Destructive, constructive and conservative plate margins. Characteristic processes: seismicity and vulcanicity. Associated landforms: young fold mountains, rift valleys, ocean ridges, deep sea trenches and island arcs, volcanoes. Magma plumes and their relationship to plat...

Notes on: - Concept of environmental fragility. Human impacts on fragile cold environments over time and at a variety of scales. - Recent and prospective impact of climate change. - Management of cold environments at present and in alternative possible futures.

Notes on: - Origin and development of glaciated landscapes. - Erosional and depositional landforms: corries, arêtes, glacial troughs, hanging valleys, truncated spurs, roches moutonnées. Characteristic glaciated landscapes. - Origin and development of landforms and landscapes of glacial deposition: drumlins, erratics, moraines, till plains. Characteristic glaciated landscapes. - Fluvioglacial landforms of erosion and deposition: meltwater channels, kames, eskers, outwash plains. Characte...