Geography

This course has two major components. The first component is an introduction to Natural Resources and Management (NRM). NRM can be viewed as a set of principles and practices that organize and exchange the use of resources for human consumption in a manner that does not compromise the ability of the managed environment to provide other essential services. In light of these, this course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of natural resource management across many fields (e.g., land, water, forests, aquatic resources, etc.) organized using a systems perspective. 

The second component is aimed at giving an introduction to and an overview of environmental economics. This will give you a better understanding of and appreciation for the role economics plays in the management, use, and protection of natural resources. Its focus is to develop your capacity to understand and apply economic decision-making criteria in the management of natural resources. The course emphasizes the practical application of economic principles and concepts to natural resource management problems.

The module introduces science students majoring with BSc Geography and other students who elected the module to the occurrence and movement of energy and water vapour fluxes in the atmosphere and on the land surface, develops quantitative approaches for the measurement of the surface energy fluxes and evapotranspiration using various hydrometeorological methods, and discusses the measurement and processing of data sets necessary for hydrologic modelling.

This course introduces the student to environmental management concepts, its problems, concepts, problems and policies. It provides the skills and knowledge to understand the solutions to the debate around environment and sustainable development. The course also introduces students to major environmental issues confronting a developing society.

This course introduces the student to man's physical environment i.e. earth’s landform and atmospheric processes and environmental management. It provides the skills and knowledge to understand the global patterns and the natural processes involved in the landforms formation and the analysis of air temperature, atmospheric moisture and precipitation, wind and global circulation and weather systems. The course also introduces students to major environmental issues confronting the society.

Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth . Earth science generally recognizes four spheres, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere these correspond to rocks, water, air, and life.

Atmospheric science is one of the fields of the Earth Science. It covers the gaseous parts of the Earth (or atmosphere) between the surface and the exosphere (about 1000 km). Major sub disciplines are meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics. This module introduces students to the basics of atmospheric science by covering aspects such as air temperature, atmospheric moisture and precipitation and weather systems.

Environmental management is about responses to environmental problems by society and about the mechanisms that are used by organizations, local, provincial and national governments to prevent, combat, control and reduce impacts made by human activities on the environment. Governments and international organizations set frameworks and then individual organizations have to determine strategies in order to comply with legislative controls and codes of practice.

Environmental Management is the application of scientific and management principles to the process of change. It involves the examination of environmental problems and leads to the production of appropriate policies and proposals which are based on sound understanding and can be translated into action.

The purpose of the module is to provide the skills and knowledge to understand the geomorphology and cartography.

Geomorphology is the science of the Earth's surface landforms and the processes that operate to form them over geologic time (10² to 10⁶ years). Through class lectures and practical exercises, we will learn about the historical development of geomorphology, techniques used in geomorphological research and surficial process operating in different environments.

The cartography part of the module deals with the factual basis for making decisions concerning the design and interpretation of maps. The module is designed to stimulate interest in cartographic issues that play an important role in the various fields of study.

Successful completion of this course will enable us to recognised and describe different landform and how they were formed.