The module will explore risk, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, resilience, and sustainability, all in the context of climate change: how these concepts relate to the Earth's physical and ecological systems, and to cultural and socio-economic structures of different societies. Case studies, presented by experts in their fields of human and physical geography, will illustrate how understanding interactions and feedbacks between human and physical systems might help societies mitigate and/or adapt to environmental hazard and risks of this dangerous world.
The module will introduce students to critical geographical themes as they relate to welfare, rights and social justice, including the state and territorialisation, community, confinement, deinstitutionalisation, landscapes of care, fragmentation and localism etc.
In contemporary neoliberal societies individuals are increasingly positioned as responsible for their own wellbeing. In the first half of this module we look at how health and wellbeing are often reduced down to a lifestyle choice. But is health and wellbeing about personal choice, or does the state have a role to play in ensuring citizens can flourish? The second half of the module introduces some of the ways in which geographers have sought to analyse health inequalities. How does place matter for health and wellbeing? Why is health unequal across space, and how do we explain these inequalities? Working across different scales (from the local to the global), the module covers important contemporary case studies: such as humanitarianism and the refugee crisis, food poverty, environmental racism, and housing insecurity.
Independent research project to produce a thesis of original geographic research.
Students will be able to apply logic and reason to prove basic results in geometric group theory. They will be able to use the geometry of the hyperbolic plane and other related simple geometric artefacts to demonstrate many of the standard features of geometric group theory. Students will also be able to work with free groups and group presentations. While developing theoretical understanding, students will be able to use examples to illustrate different aspects of geometry and group theory.
Geometry has grown out of efforts to understand the world around us, and has been a central part of mathematics from the ancient times to the present. Topology has been designed to describe, quantify, and compare shapes of complex objects. Together, geometry and topology provide a very powerful set of mathematical tools that is of great importance in mathematics and its applications. This module will introduce the students to the mathematical foundation of modern geometry based on the notion of distance. We will study metric spaces and their transformations. Through examples, we will demonstrate how a choice of distance determines shapes, and will discuss the main types of geometries. An important part of the course will be the study of continuous maps of spaces. A proper context for the general discussion of continuity is the topological space, and the students will be guided through the foundations of topology. Geometry and topology are actively researched by mathematicians and we shall indicate the most exciting areas for further study. One of the pre-requisites for MATH3076, MATH3080, MATH3086, MATH6079, MATH6094, MATH6095, MATH6137 and MATH6138
This field course is designed to simulate the methods you would conduct on a daily basis as a geoscientist working in environmental geophysical consultancy/site investigation. You will receive hands-on training using a range of different geophysical instruments, which are widely used in industry, and the course has been developed with direct guidance from industry partners. The techniques you will employ are vital for monitoring and characterising the environment and ensuring the sustainability of infrastructure projects. The applications of the surveys you will conduct include but are not limited to detection of underground voids such as buried mine workings and limestone karsts; characterisation of ground suitability for emplacement of infrastructure such as onshore wind turbines; detection of buried utility services; monitoring leachate from landfill sites; characterise the internal structure of geomorphological structures such as sand dunes; and mapping archaeological sites.
The module aims to introduce students to field of critical development and issues related to poverty, inequality, injustice and policy. As a team-taught module, specific topics may change with occasional changes to the teaching team.
This module will introduce you to the analyses often used in the design of gravity, embedded and reinforced soil retaining walls, simple shallow and pile foundations, the assessment of slope stability and slope stabilisation schemes. It will build on the basic concepts of soil mechanics introduced in the second year module CENV2006, and provide a basis for geotechnical design within CENV3015 Design 3.
