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:
- to help develop a critical appreciation of environmental factors important to tourism development and the social and biophysical impacts of tourism;
- understanding of the natural processes in the environment and the conventions of environmental scientists in describing and analysing nature;
- practical and theoretical aspects of environmental description.
Assessment by examination (50%); essay (35%); seminar (15%).