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Planet Earth: Understanding and Protecting our Environment (FutureLearn)

Apr 22nd 2024
Planet Earth: Understanding and Protecting our Environment (FutureLearn)
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Learn about the physical geography of Earth and discover how to use this knowledge to protect our natural environment. Discover the Earth’s natural systems and how human activity affects them. On this two-week course from the University of Leeds, you will discover the processes of the hydrosphere, the geosphere, [...]

La enseñanza de las Ciencias Naturales en la escuela primaria (Coursera)

Apr 22nd 2024
La enseñanza de las Ciencias Naturales en la escuela primaria (Coursera)
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Los científicos y las científicas son “aprendices profesionales”: se dedican a formular preguntas, encontrar observaciones discordantes, poner en duda aquello que no cierra y construir nuevas respuestas que permitan entender mejor el mundo en que vivimos. En este curso, desarrollarás las estrategias necesarias para lograr que tus estudiantes aprendan [...]
Apr 22nd 2024
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24.00 EUR/month

Ecology and Wildlife Conservation (FutureLearn)

Apr 22nd 2024
Ecology and Wildlife Conservation (FutureLearn)
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Discover ecology and how we can protect wildlife and conserve the natural world. Do you worry about the effects of climate change on nature? This course will show you how the work of conservation biologists and study of ecosystems can help with conserving the world’s biodiversity. You’ll explore the [...]

Environmental Challenges: Scarcity and Conflict in the Natural Environment (FutureLearn)

Mar 25th 2024
Environmental Challenges: Scarcity and Conflict in the Natural Environment (FutureLearn)
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War and conflict can severely disrupt the governance of the environment. What is the impact on both people and the environment? This course explores three aspects of conflict and resource scarcity, and applies these to explore decision making and negotiation skills. Human conflict has both short and long term [...]

Environmental Challenges: Human Impact in the Natural Environment (FutureLearn)

Mar 11th 2024
Environmental Challenges: Human Impact in the Natural Environment (FutureLearn)
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Complexity in nature arises from a myriad of simple interactions. How can this lead to an unpredictable dynamism? Complex patterns in ecology are not always causal and predictable. Populations have their own dynamics that can be independent of external environmental conditions. In this course we look at the way [...]

Nature Connectedness with the University of Derby (FutureLearn)

Jul 26th 2021
Nature Connectedness with the University of Derby (FutureLearn)
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Learn to establish a new relationship with nature to help improve your wellbeing and tackle larger issues such as climate change. Explore the relationship between nature connection and the climate crisis. Too often we see nature as something to use, control, or as a threat to us. The climate [...]

Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs (edX)

Using real examples, learn how ecology can guide urban design to avert environmental disasters and improve people’s lives. Too often modern cities and suburbs are disorganized places where most new development makes daily life less pleasant, creates more traffic congestion, and contributes to climate change. This trend has to [...]

Valuing Nature: Should We Put a Price on Ecosystems? (FutureLearn)

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Valuing Nature: Should We Put a Price on Ecosystems? (FutureLearn)
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Discover the many ways that we benefit from the natural world through ecosystem services. There are many services that ecosystems provide that we never even consider, until we destroy them. Natural ecosystems help alleviate flooding, improve food security and protect our coastlines. Yet we consistently replace these ecosystems with [...]

Invisible Worlds: Understanding the Natural Environment (FutureLearn)

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Invisible Worlds: Understanding the Natural Environment (FutureLearn)
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Explore the connection between life and the Earth's invisible systems and gain new insights into the natural environment. Discover Earth's invisible systems and transform your understanding of the world. Given the current climate emergency, it’s increasingly important that we have a good understanding of Earth’s life support systems. We [...]

The Earth in My Pocket: an Introduction to Geology (FutureLearn)

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The Earth in My Pocket: an Introduction to Geology (FutureLearn)
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Get an introduction to geology. Discover where materials that make up everyday objects come from and how to use them sustainably. Everything we use that has not been grown either contains or relies on materials that have been sourced by a geoscientist. Whether we are standing out in the [...]