Online Courses Handbook 2003

11544 (v.3) Geography 320 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	50.0
Lecture:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World
Perspectives and concepts of rural development-early modernisation approaches through to green development, and gender and development. Contemporary issues of rural development-rural/urban imbalances, health, migration, poverty, resources, labour and work, cash cropping and subsistence production. Rural development practice-case studies, role of aid institutions for government and non government, methodological issues relating to data collection, analysis and project evaluation, plus one seminar presentation and a major research paper.