Biodiversity, restoration and applied ecology in a changing world

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the solutions for environmental and sustainability challenges in both developed and developing countries
• Describe, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information critically to a high standard, e.g. suitable for publication
• Apply knowledge and understanding to complex real-world problems in unfamiliar contexts and within limited timeframes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• A3: Strong familiarity with the terminology, nomenclature and classification systems used in environmental science, and an awareness of the importance of both lay knowledge and scholarly research in co-producing knowledge and understanding relating to environmental and sustainable challenges
• Deep understanding of the processes and systems that shape aspects of the natural world relevant to your degree specialism at different temporal and spatial scales and their influence on and by human activities of different generations, demographic groups and cultures

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Familiarity with environmental science and sustainability in the workplace, and career paths open to environmental and sustainability consultants and researchers
• Work effectively as a team to identify individual and collective goals and responsibilities within the team. Evaluate your own performance as an individual and others within the team, including the ability to recognise and respect the views and opinions of other team members and to deal effectively with disputes that may arise
• Use computer and non-computer-based techniques to prepare, process, analyse and interpret data to a standard comparable to that found in published research articles

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Collect, record and analyse data to an advanced level using up to date techniques on either field, laboratory, or secondary data

1) The concept of Biodiversity

2) Biodiversity loss and drivers

3) Applied solutions to tackle biodiversity loss

4) Quantitative methods for biodiversity science

5) Restoration ecology

6) Applied ecological restoration

The module will combine lectures, practicals, fieldwork and field trips and independent learning.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.