GEOG 1103 - Economy, Environment and Place
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Course Details
| Course Code | GEOG 1103 |
| Course | Economy, Environment and Place |
| Coordinating Unit | School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences |
| Term | Semester 2 2013 |
| Mode | Internal |
| Level | Undergraduate |
| Location/s | North Terrace |
| Units | 3 |
| Contact | 2 x 1 hour lectures and 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week |
| Prerequisites | Not applicable |
| Corequisites | Not applicable |
| Incompatible | GEST 1003 |
| Assumed Knowledge | Not applicable |
| Restrictions | Not available to BEc, BFin & BCom single degree students |
| Quota | Not applicable |
| Course Description | The course zeroes in on the interface between human economic activities and a variety of contemporary environmental issues including the tragedy of open-access natural resources, prisoners' dilemmas and environmental externalities and ecologically sustainable economic growth. The course critically delivers the mainstream economic way of thinking from philosophical and ethical perspectives and considers ecological approaches to economic development. The course also presents the geographies of environmental policy responses. Apart from academic resources, newspapers, novels and movies are used to communicate the subject matter. |
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Course Staff
Dr Jungho Suh
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Room G20
Napier Building
North Terrace
Telephone: +61 8 8313 3014
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