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, and gender and development. Contemporary issues of rural development - rural/urban imbalances, health, migration, poverty, resources, labour andwork, 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: 90309 Human Geography
Funding Cluster: 05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
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Result Type: Grade/Mark

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