Environmental Challenges
Human Impact in the Natural Environment
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more The course is suitable for anyone with a general interest in nature and environmental decision-making; no previous knowledge or experience is required. If you are working in environmental management, or wish to learn more about it, this course is designed to support you as a professional. By completing all aspects of the course you will have achieved 14 hours of CPD time. You can use the hashtag #FLenvimpact to talk about this course on social media.
Topics Covered- Understand the concept of causal relationships and how climate can determine vegetation type.
- Appreciate the difference between the climax concept of vegetation succession and the individualistic concept.
- Recognise that biodiversity is not distributed evenly over the Earth, but is clustered into centres of diversity.
- Understand that many individual interactions can lead to apparently chaotic fluctuations.
- Gain an awareness of the 1/f power function and how it can be used to transform apparently random fluctuations into a straight line.
- Introduction to the classic Nicholson’s blow fly experiment that demonstrates density-dependent population dynamics.
- Understand that climate-driven events in human history, such as those of the Greenland Vikings and Mexican Mayans, were significantly influenced by social factors.
- Recognise that there are established physical relationships in nature such as allometric scaling.
- Gain an awareness of relationships between wealth and human social structures including the Pareto wealth distribution and environmental Kuznets curve, and the problems associated with their validity.
- Understand the difference between ecocentric and anthropocentric positions.
- Appreciate the arguments for legal rights for non-human species.
- Gain an awareness of the practical aspects of converting natural complexity into decision making in natural resource management.
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