| CODE | ISE5102 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Energy and the Environment 1 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Institute for Sustainable Energy | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is about the inter-relation of energy use with the local and global environmental consequences of energy use. The unit will first give a foundational insight of environmental processes and cycles. The unit will then progress to discuss the environmental impacts made by different energy systems, including atmospheric pollutants, thermal and noise pollution, as well as waste generation. Measures for mitigating environmental impacts from energy systems - including emissions control and orderly waste disposal requirements - will be discussed. Special focus will be on climate change, including its origins, the physics and chemistry behind it, and climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. Study-Unit Aims: The main purpose of this unit is to show how energy use impacts the environment and how these can be managed. The aims of this study-unit thus include: - To have an understanding basic environmental chemical balances and cycles; - To be knowledgeable of the environmental impacts of different energy systems; - To be able to identify measures for mitigating environmental impacts from energy systems. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Understand well the natural and human disturbed environmental cycles; - Explain the inter-relation of energy-related environmental impacts; - Name measures to mitigate respective environmental impacts. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe and evaluate the basic environmental impacts caused by energy use; - Describe measures for mitigating environmental impact and such measures effectiveness; - Perform basic energy balance calculations; - Actively participate in the climate change debate. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Michael D. Morgan, Joseph M. Moran and James H. Wiersma, Environmental Science: Managing Biological & Physical Resources (Dubuque: Wm.C. Brown Publishers, 1993). N. Stern, The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern_review_final_report.htm Renewable Energy, Second Edition, Boyle, G. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0199261784. Energy Systems and Sustainability, Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett, Janet Ramage, Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0199261792. Managing Transport Energy (Energy for a Sustainable Future), James Warren, Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 0199215774. Manfred Weissenbacher, Sources of Power: How Energy Forges Human History, Praeger Perspectives, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009. ISBN-10: 0313356262; ISBN-13: 978-0313356261. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Marija Cauchi (Co-ord.) Robert N. Farrugia Luciano Mule' Stagno |
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