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OLET1672: Sustainability: Climate and Energy
2025 unit information
Are you addicted to fossil fuels? What are the wider impacts of the forms of energy that power your life? What is the nature and scale of the problems spawned by current practices, and can we chart a pathway to a sustainable, clean future? This OLE will inform climate and energy questions with real-world data, deconstructing propositions that are constantly thrown around in the media. It will provide quantitative information to counter the morass of misinformation surrounding the supply and demand for energy and resources, raising issues of who wins and who loses when it comes to energy supply and its impacts on society and the environment. Our world faces major challenges in resource sufficiency and impacts on our biosphere, yet misinformation often drowns out fact-based reason in the public discourse. This OLE will arm you to understand and influence that debate.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Physics Academic Operations |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Explain the current state of climate change science debate and how and why it differs from public perception.
- LO2. Analyse the drivers of global energy needs and how they could be met sustainably.
- LO3. Analyse the influence of individual consumption choices on global economic, environmental and social systems
- LO4. Integrate multiple interdisciplinary perspectives on climate change
- LO5. Communicate the urgency and need for humans to adopt sustainable practices
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Semester 1a 2024
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Semester 2a 2024
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1a 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2a 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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