TO2000 - Tourism and the Environment

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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This subject examines the positive and negative impacts of tourism on the physical, economic and socio-cultural environment. It includes an extensive introduction to key ecological theories and to a wide range of Australian environments and the major biophysical processes which structure them. Current models of tourism development and its impacts are reviewed and aspects of the legislative framework governing the interaction between tourism and the environment are examined. Although the course has an Australian and Asia-Pacific emphasis, it takes an international perspective with examples from Africa, North America and Europe also reviewed.

Learning Outcomes

• practical and theoretical aspects of environmental description;
• 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.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.

Prerequisites:	18 units of level 1 subjects
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	TO5002 and EV2201 and TO6002

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (15%); (35%).
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coordinator:	Professor Alastair Birtles
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Professor Alastair Birtles.
Contact hours:	26 hours 24 hours 2 days
Assessment:	(50%); (15%); (35%).

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