Explores the range of contemporary global processes and their local implications. Such geographic processes and outcomes provide the backdrop to an understanding of conflict in the contemporary world. As with Introduction to Global Change in first session, the emphasis is on the linkages between social and physical geographies across a range of scales. Topics may include the historical origins of contemporary global processes, the changing global economy, global cities, current environmental issues including land degradation and climate change, geographic technologies for analysing and managing environmental change, patterns of health and disease, and the nature of discourse and debates around global processes.