Courses Handbook 2008

13210 (v.3) Geography 221 - Environmental Conservation


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 13211 (v.2) Geography 321 - Environmental Conservation - History of Environmentalism, Development of Public Policy and Practice in Environmental Planning
Prerequisite(s): 1436 (v.5) Geography 111 - Natural Hazards or any previous version
AND
1437 (v.5) Geography 112 - Global Change or any previous version
Syllabus: Examination of the origins and history of environmentalism, the environmental movement and the role of geographers in environmental planning and management. Environmental perception and natural resource management issues are examined with examples drawn from agriculture, pastoralism, fisheries, mining, tourism and recreation, urban development and transport. Biodiversity and bioregional planning.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090309 Human Geography
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

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Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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