Content (Syllabus outline)
- Introduction to global change and the Earth system-natural versus anthropogenic drivers
- global climate change-paleoclimate, present, and future climate predictions
- Terrestrial biogeochemistry-Carbon, Nitrogen, and water cycles
- Invasive species
- Drivers of change: fossil fuels, population growth and consumption, land use change, tropical deforestation, air pollution
- Impacts: altered ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity loss, altered disturbance regimes, socio-economic effects
- Mitigation and adaptation
Prerequisites
1. Condition for inclusion in the work:
- inscription to adequate academic year and chosen subject
2. Condition for performing study obligations:
- Participation in lecture discussion
- Participation in seminar activities
- Student presentations
- Group project
- Colloquium