Environmental Change

Description

This course aims: to provide an overview of the various techniques that can be applied to analyse proxy records of environmental change, including their possibilities and limitations to provide an overview of the environmental changes recorded during the last 25000 years, making a distinction between natural and human induced environmental change to explain the current landscape as the result of specific process-interactions in the past in order to make predictions for the future to analyse the climatic changes of the last 1000 years in detail to discuss the various climate prediction scenario's to provide students knowledge about the complex nature of past and future environmental change such that they can participate in the debate on global climate change and its impacts on society