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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-2024
MURDOCH-S2-MIXEDMODE-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Explain your understanding of the relevant chemistry of carbon dioxide and its role in photosynthesis and greenhouse effect, including basic principles of underlying scientific methods;

2.

Communicate the major mitigation responses to the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and demonstrate an understanding of their inherent risks, uncertainties and trade-offs;

3.

Establish the various international and national institutional responses to carbon dioxide build-up, including financial/economic, politico/legal;

4.

Analyse the measurement and main modelling techniques for atmospheric carbon dioxide and their limitations;

5.

Establish the voluntary actions citizens and corporations can take to reduce carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere;

6.

Interpret an integrated perspective of carbon and climate issues, with an appreciation of how multidisciplinary perspectives can contribute to the way forward;

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:The current issue of carbon and climate is approached from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. This includes environmental chemistry and physics of carbon, the carbon cycle, emissions mitigation, ocean acidification, the land sector and carbon mitigation, economic analysis of climate change, economic policy response to climate change, politics and governance of climate change, modelling of CO2 levels into the 21st century and media reporting of climate change.
Other notes:This is a University-Wide Breadth Unit.