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  • 1 Core Concepts
    0LEVEL
    Society/sociology 

    1 Core Concepts

    Engaging all members, voices and opinions within a community is vitally important when developing solutions to social and environmental challenges the community face. This unit discusses the core concepts behind how you engage with your wider community or engage with another community to identify solutions. The most effective community solutions are ones that benefit the community, are fair and do not impact negatively on the environment. The aims of this unit are to introduce the following: how to follow an action learning approach to engagement and management; why community engagement is important and approaches to successful engagement; the concept of community owned solutions; and how to determine impact.

  • 4 Environmental Monitoring Techniques
    0LEVEL
    Environment 

    4 Environmental Monitoring Techniques

    Environmental monitoring is a way of understanding the current condition and any changes that occur in the environment. Environmental change can occur to water, the land, the air, to plants and animals. Understanding environmental condition and changes can help support management activities, support policy development and its implementation, and develop information for sharing with the community, government and the wider public. The aim of this unit is to introduce why it is important to collect environmental data, some of the different methods that can be used, how to plan a monitoring study and how to analyse and share the information.

  • 5 Community Monitoring
    0LEVEL
    Environment 

    5 Community Monitoring

    Community monitoring is monitoring developed and carried out by communities themselves. Widespread participation of community members is encouraged in the design, execution, reporting and evaluation of the monitoring programme (discussed in Unit 4). The aims of this unit are to introduce the benefits of using a community approach when developing a monitoring programme and to provide guidance on how to plan, act, observe and evaluate it.

  • 6 Community Wetland Management
    0LEVEL
    Environment 

    6 Community Wetland Management

    Water and wetlands are fundamental to life. How we interact with them and the management approaches we adopt can impact our health and well-being, and the environment. Community management is the implementation of a management approach that provides a solution to social and environmental challenges the community faces. It is developed and carried out by a community themselves. Identifying the most robust community management approaches is important. We call these approaches community owned solutions as they benefit the community, are fair and do not impact negatively on the environment. The aims of this unit are to examine our relationship with water and wetlands, to introduce community management, discuss how to identify community owned solutions and look at how to implement and evaluate community owned solutions.

  • Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE
    3LEVEL
    Environment 

    Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE

    This course will help participants understand the types of investments that could be made to ensure a sustainable and secure energy system from a global or national perspective using an agent-based methodology.

  • Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE
    2LEVEL
    Environment 

    Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE

    This course will help participants understand the types of investments that could be made to ensure a sustainable and secure energy system from a global or national perspective using an agent-based methodology.

  • Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE
    3LEVEL
    Environment 

    Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE

    This course will help participants understand the types of investments that could be made to ensure a sustainable and secure energy system from a global or national perspective using an agent-based methodology.

  • Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE
    2LEVEL
    Environment 

    Agent-based energy systems modelling: MUSE

    This course will help participants understand the types of investments that could be made to ensure a sustainable and secure energy system from a global or national perspective using an agent-based methodology.

  • Alimentation à faible impact climatique 1/2
    0LEVEL
    Environment 

    Alimentation à faible impact climatique 1/2

    Ce cours transmet les compétences de base pour engager une réduction de l’impact climatique de son alimentation de façon pérenne et personnalisée.

  • Análisis financiero de proyectos del sector eléctrico mediante el modelo FinPlan
    2LEVEL
    Business and money/finance 

    Análisis financiero de proyectos del sector eléctrico mediante el modelo FinPlan

    FINPLAN: Modelización financiera para apoyar la planificación de proyectos energéticos que logren resultados de desarrollo sostenible.

  • Are you ready for S831?
    3LEVEL
    Environment 

    Are you ready for S831?

    Are you ready for S831? is a web-based set of diagnostic self-assessment questions for prospective students of this Masters level Environmental science module.

  • Basic Principles in Climatic Design
    0LEVEL
    Art/Architecture 

    Basic Principles in Climatic Design

    This course is designed to give you an overview of the basic principles for climate and comfort in buildings.

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