Environmental Systems and Climate Change

Issued by Griffith University

This micro-credential will examine the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on the natural environment and consider how society might craft strategies to control the sources, and responses to deal with the impacts, of such change. The micro-credential will adopt an Earth System Science perspective to elucidate the role of environmental systems in determining global climate and consider how their simulation can contribute to developing policy within the climate change debate. This micro-

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Skills

Earning Criteria

Have a broad understanding of the science of global climate change and its impacts on the biosphere, and an appreciation of the range of obstacles to its resolution.
Have a broad understanding of the ways in which climate data and numerical models inform policy.
Have a broad understanding of ecological and human health impacts of climate change.
Have a broad understanding of global environmental governance for climate change, especially the history of the emergence of the issue, the United Nations responses, and the geo-politics of policy formulation.
Cognitive outcomes through the understanding, analysis and evaluation of a range of observational and model-derived scientific data, and their integration into environmental decision-making and policy formulation.
Apply discipline-specific English and academic skills in your academic and professional communication.
Planning Document Project Proposal.
Written Assignment Group Project- Final Report.
Written Assignment Group Project Literature Review.
Peer Assessment.
Written Assignment Reflective Essay.