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Lecture 12 Continued
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Lecture 12 - The cryosphere - glacial systems and processes
Topics covered: sediment transportation in glaciers, glacial landforms, reconstruction of past glacial limits
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Tectonic Processes Lecture Summary
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Lecture Summary covering: the dynamic earth, weathering processes, climate and hazards. Also includes recommended reading (available for download in this module).
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Lecture 3: Weather Systems - Temperate Regions and Global Warming
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Lecture 3 - Weather Systems - temperate regions and global warming.
Topics covered: North Western Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe
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Lecture 1: Introduction & Lecture 2: Atmosphere and Oceans; Importance to Climate
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Lecture 1 - Introduction - Earth Sciences
Topics covered - contents of the course

Lecture 2 - The atmosphere and the ocean - their importance to climate
Topics Covered: earth temperature controls distribution of the Earth's heat, Ocean currents, atmospheric circulation
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Lecture 18 Continued & Lecture 19: Water in the Desert
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Lecture 18 - Arid zone geomorphology - processes and landscapes
Topics covered: key issues in drylands, impacts of dust in the environment
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Lecture 19 - Water in the desert - human use and climate change
Topics covered: human uses of water resources
Recommended reading available in Lecture 19 continued
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Lecture 4: Why do climates change? & Lecture 5: Hurricanes
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Lecture 4 - Why do climates change: long and short term controls
Topics covered: causes of climate change, feedback
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Lecture 5 - Hurricanes - Extreme Weather Events
Topics Covered - terminology
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Readings 2 Pianka 1966 & Thomas 2008
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Reading summaries from texts:
Pianka (1966) 'Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: a review of concepts', American Naturalist, 100, 33-46

Thomas (2008) 'The Biosphere', in Holden, 'An introduction to physical geography and the environment',
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Lecture 7 continued & Lecture 8: Natural & Human interactions
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Lecture 7 - Harvesting the ecosystem - carrying capacity and human needs
Topics covered: reading
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Lecture 8 - Contemporary issues in the biosphere - natural and human interactions
Topics covered: terminology, consequences of land degradation
Recommended reading available at Lecture 8 continued & Lecture 9
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Lecture 6 continued & Lecture 7: Harvesting the ecosystem
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Lecture 6 - Ecosystem stability - the concept of stability under changing conditions
Topics covered: Reading
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Lecture 7 - Harvesting the ecosystem - carrying capacity and human needs
Topics Covered: carrying capacity, Malthus' theory, terminology
Recommended reading available at Lecture 7 continued & Lecture 8
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Cryosphere
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