TO2000 - Tourism and the Environment
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Tourism |
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: | TO1005 or TO1006 or TO1002 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | TO5002 and EV2201 and TO6002 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 30-Mar-2007 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Alastair Birtles |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (15%); essays (35%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 30-Mar-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Heather Zeppel. |
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| Assessment: | quizzes or tests (20%); presentations (15%); practicals (20%); essays (20%); project report (25%). |
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