James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

EV2201:03

Tourism and the Environment

Townsville

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 24 hours workshops. Semester 1.

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%).