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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Geography

121-303 Sustainable Development

Credit Points:

16.7 3rd year

Coordinator:

Assoc. Professor Brian Finlayson

Prerequisite/s:

121-219 Environmental Politics and Management, or a similar unit offered by another department, or approval of the head of the department.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Two hours of lectures and a two-hour laboratory each week. Two days of fieldwork

Objectives:

Students completing this subject should:

  • understand the variety of definitions of sustainability and their usefulness in clarifying issues of environment and development;

  • gain an understanding of methods of measuring rates and levels of development and environmental qualities;

  • understand the concepts of growth and of well-being and to know how to measure them in different ways;

  • understand and be capable of applying the variety of measures of environmental quality that have been used;

  • appreciate the trade-offs between development and environment by applying the measures of well-being and environmental quality to particular development proposals.

Content:

Sustainability and development. Sources of conflict between development and environmental quality; historical examples of modes of exploiting and defending environmental values in Australia and SE Asia. Measurement of environmental values.

Assessment:

Group and individual reports of up to 4000 words; an examination of up to 2 hours. Weightings of components of assessment will be advised at the commencement of the subject.
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