James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2004

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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%).