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The causes and impacts of global environmental change receive increasing attention in science, politics and popular media. As a result, there is a growing need for well-trained scientists able to understand, predict and anticipate the challenges (and perhaps opportunities) linked to global change. This requires a well founded insights into the many factors involved and their often intricate interactions. For example, one of the predicted outcomes of global change is a generally increased exposure to natural disasters. This will not only depend on changes in climate but also on the geomorphic setting, land use patterns and its dynamics and various socio-economic factors.
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Our Master in Global change (Climatology - Surface Processes - Human Dimension) aims to offer this understanding and to provide a broad but thorough scientific training on the issues linked to global change. The common core of the master is centered on the three key components of global change and their interactions: climate, earth-surface processes and societies. Students further have room to further specialize themselves according to their own interests. For this, a wide range of specialization courses is offered, focussing on three central and interdependent themes of global change: (1) climate change at local and global scales; (2) impacts of global environmental changes on the landscape, natural hazards and related processes such as land degradation; (3) the impact of global environmental changes on migration and its political aspects. Further details on the program can be found here.
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Depending on your interest and prior training, two versions of this master can be followed: a master in 2 years (120 ECTS) for students having a relevant bachelor degree (see access conditions), and a master in one year (75 to 60 ECTS) for students already having a relevant master training (see access conditions). The one-year version of the master is completely offered in English.
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Our team is closely involved in this education project.
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Matthias Vanmaercke teaches two courses in the common core during the first year: “Geomorphic challenges in a changing world” and “Introduction to modelling in physical geography – Environment”, and two specialization courses: “Land use change modeling” and “Soil erosion: prediction and prevention”.
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Aurélia Hubert-Ferrari is teaching one courses in the common core during the first year “Earth surface processes” and two specialization courses: “Coastal geomorphology, sea level change and coastal vulnerability” and “landslide risks: prediction and prevention”.
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Alain Demoulin teaches one specialization course: “Natural Hazard : Tectonics and Volcanism”.
