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GE2360:03

Cradle to Grave: Population, Economy and Environment

[Not offered in 2004]

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%).