Honours Specialization - Environmental Modeling

ENSC 4247  Environmental Modeling

Prerequisites:

Any 54 credits completed including GEOG 2026 or BIOL 3117

Antirequisites:

GEOG 4247

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Models have become a fundamental tool in studying the environment, allowing interdisciplinary consideration of biophysical, social, and economic processes. Students learn how systems thinking and dynamic environmental modelling can help build our understanding of complex environmental problems and find solutions. Students learn to conceptualize and construct a model of an environmental system and how it changes over time using web-based modelling tools.