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This module aims to provide participants with an overview of global environmental change, to facilitate their critical understanding and analysis of the inter-relationships between environment and development issues, and to enable them to apply such understanding to their own experience and work. During this module, participants will: Investigate the implications that increasing world population and resource consumption have for development and the environment; Critically examine the key global environmental issues currently affecting human livelihoods, with particular focus on the resource rights of poorer communities; Develop an in-depth understanding of the connections between environmental issues, climate change, and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; Critically analyse theories of sustainable development and environment - economy relationships; Critically reflect on the global food systems and analyse key agricultural and land use models and how they work for poor people and affect the environment.
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