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GEG-10021 - Module Specification
School of Life Sciences
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

GEG-10021 - Conservation Policy and Practice
Coordinator: Daniel Allen Room: WSF11 Tel: +44 1782 7 34961
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 734414

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

Whether it is natural resource depletion, changing climate, protecting wilderness, saving endangered species, or living during a pandemic, we worry about the impacts society has on nature and vice versa. Practices of conservation have emerged to safeguard the parts of the natural world we particularly value. But our ideas about nature are often multiple and contradictory; and discussions about our duties to nature often disguise deeper claims about economic benefits and social equity. This module engages with interdisciplinary ideas about nature with focus on approaches to conservation policy and practice.

Aims
Gain an interdisciplinary understanding of conservation policy and practice.

Intended Learning Outcomes

demonstrate how different perceptions, values and politics of nature influence conservation policies, decision-making and practice.: 1,2
evaluate and explore conservation policy and practice at global, national and local levels.: 1,2
understand the importance and effectiveness of conservation initiatives for protecting and enhancing biodiversity.: 1,2

Study hours

25 hours interactive lectures
5 hours collaborative activity online
40 hours essay preparation
40 hours poster preparation
40 hours independent study

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Essay weighted 50%
Essay
Select one question from the list provided - 1,500-word essay.

2: Assignment weighted 50%
Poster
Design an educational poster which focuses on an example of nature conservation policy and practice. This is not a poster presentation - only the poster will be assessed.

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Last Updated: 04 December 2025