BX3091 - Tourism and the Environment
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
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
- Develop a critical appreciation of environmental factors important to tourism development, and the social and biophysical impacts of tourism;
- Knowledge of Australian environmental legislation regulating the impacts of tourism;
- Evaluate the roles of tourism and environmental agencies in managing and controlling the impacts of tourism, particulary in protected areas;
- Critically review green tourism practices, environmental interpretation, eco-certification, carbon offsets and other tools and techniques for achieving sustainable tourism;
- Develop students' research; field observation, report & essay writing and presentation skills.
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.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | EV2201 AND TG2201 AND TO2000 AND TO5002 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 25-Mar-2010 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (30%); presentations (20%); essays (35%); project report (15%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 25-Mar-2010 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Heather Zeppel. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (30%); presentations (20%); essays (35%); project report (15%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 22-Jul-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Alastair Birtles |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (30%); presentations (20%); essays (35%); project report (15%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 15-Apr-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Heather Zeppel |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (30%); presentations (20%); essays (35%); project report (15%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 09-Dec-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Alastair Birtles |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (30%); presentations (20%); essays (35%); project report (15%). |
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