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Compulsory
Hydrometeorology for the Climate Emergency (15 credits)
The aim of this module is to develop knowledge, understanding and skills required to undertake hydrological and meteorological measurements, and to evaluate measurement and monitoring practices and policies for a changing climate.
Climate Futures (15 credits)
The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of alternative climate pathways, to use data and tools to define probable climate futures (with a focus on the UK over the 21st century), and to rehearse strategies for communicating future change.
Mapping and Modelling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (15 credits)
The aim of this research-led module is to understand how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relate to each other and to model their interactions, with a special focus on the quantitative analysis of Climate, Land, Energy, and Water systems (CLEWs). Students will work with the CLEWs modelling framework, developed as part of the Climate Compatible Growth programme within STEER – the Loughborough Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience.
International Politics: Issues and Policies (15 credits)
This module aims to provide students with knowledge of a range of issues drawn from contemporary international politics that are discussed in multilateral fora. It develops a problem-solving approach and impresses upon students the policy relevance of the discipline of International Politics. This module encourages students to explore a central characteristic of international life through introductory lectures into selected contemporary issues and practice relevant workshops. This is done through the development of conceptual knowledge, and the application of skills of analysis.
Compulsory
The Global Financial System under Climate Change (15 credits)
The central aims of this module are to:
- develop a diversity of perspectives to examine the contemporary financial system; and
- critically consider the relations between the global financial system and climate change.
Climate Science into Practice (15 credits)
Climate services is a growth industry involving the translation of climate science into usable formats that support high-consequence decision-making, operating rules, and design of long-lived assets, despite deep uncertainty about the future. The aim of this module is to understand diverse sources of climate risk information and, through practical exercises, learn to implement appraisal frameworks used to operationalise climate science, within complex institutional, ethical and governance landscapes.
Economic Modelling and Policy for Sustainable Development (15 credits)
The aim of this research-led module is to understand policy options and their economic impacts on sustainable development, with a focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and adaptation in the energy sector. Students will gain hands-on experience with OSeMOSYS, a powerful open-source energy modelling tool, developed as part of the Climate Compatible Growth programme within STEER – the Loughborough Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience.
Research Design and Practice (15 credits)
The aims of this module are to consolidate students' experiences of undertaking research in both the social science and humanities traditions and to equip them with the appropriate intellectual and practical methodological, writing and reflexive skills to successfully undertake an independent and original piece of critical research on an issue of relevance to their programme.
Dissertation in Climate Change Politics and Policy (60 credits)
The principal aim of this module is to produce an original, critical piece of research specific to the programme on which a student is registered. An original analysis of data is expected, which may use primary data or secondary data or a combination of the two. with appropriate contextualization in the relevant literature, progressive research methodologies and skills in data analysis, interpretation and writing-up.
Compulsory
Dissertation in Climate Change Politics and Policy (60 credits)
The principal aim of this module is to produce an original, critical piece of research specific to the programme on which a student is registered. An original analysis of data is expected, which may use primary data or secondary data or a combination of the two. with appropriate contextualization in the relevant literature, progressive research methodologies and skills in data analysis, interpretation and writing-up.