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Lecture 1: Introduction & Lecture 2: Atmosphere and Oceans; Importance to Climate
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Lecture 1 - Introduction - Earth Sciences
Topics covered - contents of the course

Lecture 2 - The atmosphere and the ocean - their importance to climate
Topics Covered: earth temperature controls distribution of the Earth's heat, Ocean currents, atmospheric circulation
Recommended readings included (some available to download in this module)
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Readings 15 - Holden, 2012 & Knight, Harrison, 2013
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Summaries of texts:

Holden (2012) 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment', Glacial geological processes and glacial sediments', pp. 487-499
'Magnitude - frequency concepts in physical geography', pp. 22

Knight & Harrison, (2013) 'The impacts of climate change on terrestrial Earth surface systems', Nature Climate Change, 3, pp. 24-29
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Lecture 3: Weather Systems - Temperate Regions and Global Warming
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Lecture 3 - Weather Systems - temperate regions and global warming.
Topics covered: North Western Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe
Recommended Reading included (some available for download in this module)
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Tectonic Processes Lecture Summary
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Lecture Summary covering: the dynamic earth, weathering processes, climate and hazards. Also includes recommended reading (available for download in this module).
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Lecture 11 Continued & Lecture 12: Glacial Systems and Processes
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Lecture 11 - Unstable landscape - slope processes and dynamics
Topics covered: courses/catalysts of soil erosion, predictions for the Mediterranean
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Lecture 12 - The Cryosphere - glacial systems and processes
Topics covered: terminology, glacial formation, accumulation zone
Recommended reading available at Lecture 12 continued
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Lecture 14 Continued & Lecture 15: Human and Climate Impacts on River Systems
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Lecture 14 - River System - hydrological systems and their operations
Topics covered: magnitude and frequency, morphological river types, river activity calculations
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Lecture 15 - River systems - human and climate impacts
Topics covered: terminology, the impact of agriculture and landscape clearance
Recommended reading available on Lecture 15 continued & Lecture 16
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Lecture 6 continued & Lecture 7: Harvesting the ecosystem
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Lecture 6 - Ecosystem stability - the concept of stability under changing conditions
Topics covered: Reading
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Lecture 7 - Harvesting the ecosystem - carrying capacity and human needs
Topics Covered: carrying capacity, Malthus' theory, terminology
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Lecture 7 continued & Lecture 8: Natural & Human interactions
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Lecture 7 - Harvesting the ecosystem - carrying capacity and human needs
Topics covered: reading
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Lecture 8 - Contemporary issues in the biosphere - natural and human interactions
Topics covered: terminology, consequences of land degradation
Recommended reading available at Lecture 8 continued & Lecture 9
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River Systems
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Module Summary
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Readings 2 Pianka 1966 & Thomas 2008
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Reading summaries from texts:
Pianka (1966) 'Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: a review of concepts', American Naturalist, 100, 33-46

Thomas (2008) 'The Biosphere', in Holden, 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment',