James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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EV1001:03

Introduction to Environmental Science

Townsville, Cairns

Inadmissable Subject Combination: EA1300

39 lectures, 22 tutorials, 4 hours field work. Second semester.

An overview of current global and regional environmental problems; an examination of the interaction between natural processes and the human activities which circumscribe such issues and which constrain their amelioration; a review of current areas of knowledge and ignorance concerning environmental processes. Particular attention will be paid to tropical examples.

Assessment by examination (50%); tutorials, lecture, tests (50%).


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