This Landscape Development course has now ceased to run. The pages have been left on the server because website has been included in the GEsource Geography and Environment Gateway. The pages are a little dated now.

The course was designed to look at the development of a variety of landscapes over a variety of timescales. The first part of the course considers long term landscape change. This section of the course explores classical and modern theoretical approaches to landscape evolution, and exemplifies the variety of applications of the theoretical models through a broad spatial case study analysis.

The second section of the course considers shorter term landscape evolution, principally within the context of the Quaternary, and the means by which landscape evolution is investigated.

The emphasis, in part 2, is upon the techniques that physical geographers use to examine landscape and environmental change, within the context of recent paradigm shift and the continuing evolution of the philosophical approaches to the understanding of natural environmental science. Lectures in part 2 also explore the variety of scales, both temporal and spatial, at which physical geographers can apply the study of landscape change. Naturally the variety of scales is enormous, and thus each lecture represents a discussion of a wide range of temporally and spatially diverse environments, from Quaternary landscape change, through the impact of humans as geomorphological agents, to the extra terrestrial geomorphology of our nearest planetary neighbours.

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Lecture Programme

1. Introduction - a "taster" from all staff.
2. Classical Geomorphology.
   
3. Neoclassical Geomorphology
4. Modern Concepts of Landscape Evolution.
   
5. Long Term Landscape Development -The UK
6. Long Term Landscape Development -The UK
   
7. Long Term Landscape Development -Australia
8. Long Term Landscape Development - Australia.
   
9. Long Term Landscape Development - South Africa.
10. Long Term Landscape Development -The USA
    
11. Causes of Landscape Change
12. Temporal scales of Landscape Development. 
    Theories & Philosophies in Physical Geography.

Other Resources

• Case study: Geomorphology in Urban Environments.
• In our time: Ageing the earth

Lecture Programme

1. Quaternary Landscape Development I.
2. Quaternary Landscape Development II.
3. Quaternary Landscapes: The Evidence of Landforms.
   
4. Quaternary landscapes: The Evidence of Sediments.
5. Climate and Environment change – Biological Evidence I.
   
6. Climate and Environment Change – Biological Evidence II.
7. Dating Landscape Change.
   
8. Causes of Climatic Change.
9. Future Climatic Change and Global Climate Models.
   
10. Humans as Agents of Landscape Change.
11. Extra-terrestrial landscapes: Case study - Mars
    
12. Synthesis.