#NA-02-10 Tackling Environmental Challenges for a Sustainable Future
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
University of YorkDescription
Explore sustainable solutions to environmental issues like changing glaciers
Our energy use is unsustainable, we’re producing waste plastic that’s endangering oceans, and large parts of the natural world are disappearing. We know our planet is facing huge environmental challenges, but what are we doing to solve them?
On this course, you’ll discover how the environment is studied and learn how research at the University of York is helping to develop sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
The course will encourage you to reflect on the importance of a more sustainable future for our planet and will introduce you to the role the Sustainable Development Goals can play.
Who will you learn with?
David Rippin is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography and a glaciologist. His research focuses on understanding how glaciers move and how their behaviour is affected by climate change.
Bryce is a Senior Lecturer whose work has ranged across temperate and tropical seas. He specialises in improving the management of fisheries and studying the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas.
Brett is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York and studies the fate and effects of emerging pollutants in the environment.
Who developed the course?
The University of York combines the pursuit of academic excellence with a culture of inclusion, which encourages everyone – from a variety of backgrounds – to achieve their best.
What Will I Learn?
- Explore major environmental challenges and how we investigate them.
- Evaluate the importance of interactions between people and the planet.
- Investigate potential sustainable solutions to major environmental problems.
- Reflect upon the need for a sustainable future and the role of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Topics for this course
Welcome
Welcome to our course
Introduction to the course by David Rippin00:01:54
Meet the team
Introduce yourself!
An introduction to glaciers
The importance of increased melt rates
Monitoring and measuring change in glaciers
Policy and the future of glaciers
Summary and closing thoughts
Finishing this course made me think about the importance of a more sustainable future for the planet, and Xiang introduced the role that the SDGS can play.
In this course I learn about how the environment is studied and how research at York University helps to develop sustainable solutions to environmental problems. Really shocked by the greatness of science.
Environmental sustainable development is a problem we must pay attention to. Now the environment is being destroyed more and more serious, global warming, but we still do not change the pace of destruction, this course is really good, warning us.
Our energy use is unsustainable, the waste plastic we produce is endangering the oceans, and much of nature is disappearing. We know we face huge environmental challenges, but how do we solve them? The lesson was too heavy for me to contemplate.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- There has never been a more important time to study the environment. This course is designed for anyone interested in how research is informing our knowledge of global environmental issues and potential solutions.
- The course will be particularly useful for final year school students who are considering studying an environmental course at university. It will also appeal to anyone with an interest and with a general understanding of issues surrounding environmental issues.