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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • understand why land acquisition can be considered an environmental issue and the particular environmental challenges that it presents

  • recognise the need for an interdisciplinary approach to interpret and explain environmental issues

  • discuss the relationship between economic uncertainty and environmental change

  • appreciate the work that analytical concepts can do to make sense of complex environmental issues such as the issues of rights to land and food prices.

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OpenLearn - ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
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