GE2360:03
Cradle to Grave: Population, Economy and Environment
| Cairns | HECS Band 1 |
26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 21 hours practicals, 16 hours fieldwork. Semester 1.
Staff: Dr P Griggs.
This subject provides a geographical perspective on population and economic change at a variety of scales, from the global to local, using evidence from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Topics studied include contemporary fertility and mortality patterns, population-physical environment relationships, recent socio-economic change and migration and the location of economic activity, with a focus on the changing role of technology, work and the state. Computer-based workshops will be used to develop practical skills in demographic and regional analysis.
Learning Objectives:
- identify the factors that cause spatial variation in the economic landscape (eg governments, environment, behavioural);
- analyse and predict locational decision making that relates to economic activity;
- demonstrate an understanding of the basic attributes which are used to describe and measure population change;
- identify the major sources of data on global population characteristics and international economic activity.
Assessment by examination (40%); on-course assessment (project, fieldwork and practicals) (60%).