Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World

Area:

 Department of Social Sciences

Credits:

 25.0

Contact Hours:

 4.0
 
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Lecture:

 1 x 4 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

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

Prerequisite(s):

 1436 (v.4) Geography 111 - Natural Hazards - Geography of the Global Distribution, Causes and Impacts of Natural Hazards and Strategies Used to Minimise Risks or any previous version
AND
1437 (v.4) Geography 112 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

 Perspectives and concepts of rural development - early modernisation approaches through to green development, 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 both government and non-government, methodological issues relating to data collection, analysis and project evaluation.
 
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Field of Education:

 090309 Human Geography

Funding Cluster:

 05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

 Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

 Grade/Mark

Availability
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