James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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EV2201:03

Tourism and the Environment

Townsville

Inadmissable Subject Combination: TG2201 T02000

26 lectures, 24 hours workshops. First semester.

Staff: Mr P Valentine.

The nature of the environment, ecological processes; interaction between natural environments and tourism; analysis of tourism impacts both natural and social.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to help develop a critical appreciation of environmental factors important to tourism development and the social and biophysical impacts of tourism;
  2. understanding of the natural processes in the environment and the conventions of environmental scientists in describing and analysing nature;
  3. practical and theoretical aspects of environmental description.

Assessment by examination (50%); essay (35%); seminar (15%).


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