Department of Environmental Science

 

Programme of work October 2001 – April 2002

 

October 2000 intake (second-year groups)

 

Span: approximately twenty-six weeks

 

Delivery: three hours per week.  Click here for your lecture schedule.

 

 

Part B: The physical environment

• Soil
• The carbon cycle
• The nitrogen cycle

 

Part C: The biosphere

• The dynamics of biological populations
• The dynamics of the human population
• Properties of biological communities
• Ecosystems
• Biomes

 

Part D: Human activities and the environment

• Water pollution
• Solid waste and its management
• Utilisation of land and its resources
• Degradation and depletion of natural resources
• Conservation biology and restoration of the natural environment

 

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