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As the global population speeds past 8 billion, mounting evidence about resource depletion and climate change, global economic inequality and social injustice indicates that current human development is unsustainable and that we are now living in the “Anthropocene” – an era in which human activity has, for the first time, become the dominant driver of environmental processes and is causing unprecedented global change. The module shows how Geography, a discipline that draws on knowledge that spans the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities, is uniquely placed to understand our changing world. Its combination of lectures, tutorials, field and labs are relevant to students across the University.