302479 (v.2) SS 563 - Sustainability Studies (Rural)

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	2.0
Seminar:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Worldwide trends in the sustainability of rural communities. The nature, form and distribution of rural settlements and communities. Demographic composition and change. The impact of economic, technological and social change, centralisation, improved communications, work patterns, telecommuting, counter-urbanisation, long distance commuting. Public policy at the national, regional and local scales.
Unit Outcomes:	On completion of this unit, students will be competent to: understand the concept of sustainability as applied to rural communities, appreciate the major theoretical approach in the field, identify, from a series of case studies, the key processes, issues and stakeholders in the context of sustainable community development, demonstrate skills in the reporting and evaluating of projects in the aforesaid context.
Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information.
Unit References:	Country Shire Council's Association (1990) Country Towns - A Future or Funeral, Perth; Fogan, R and Webber, M (1994) Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience, Melbourne, OUP; Marsden, T et al (1990) Rural Restructuring: Global Processes and Their Response, London, David Futton; Sorensen, T and Epps R (1993) Prospects and Policies For Rural Australia, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire.
Unit Texts:	Lawrence, G et al (ed) (1996) Social Change in Australia, Rockhampton, CQU.