MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

GES2992

Development and the environment -worlds apart?

S Legg

Synopsis This subject examines the management of economic development with particular emphasis on the role of public policy in regulating the human impact on the natural environment. Case studies taken from the world's most rapidly-growing and diverse region - Asia and the Pacific Rim - are used to investigate a variety of approaches to the utilisation and control of the natural environment. Within this geographical framework we trace the problems of urban-industrial growth in first world countries in Australasia, Asia and the Americas; compare and contrast the special needs of the Newly Industrialising Countries with the more fragile economies of the Pacific Islands; consider the possibility of sustainable exploitation of natural resources throughout the region; and investigate the population and migration question. Australia's expanding links and greater role in the region provide an underlying theme.

Assessment Written (3500 words): 60% + Examination (2 hours): 40%

Recommended texts

• Adams W M Green development: Environment and sustainability in the Third World Routledge, 1990
• Barr N and Cary N Greening a brown land: The Australian search for sustainable land use Macmillan, 1992
• Brookfield H and Byron Y South East Asia's environmental future: The search for sustainability OUP, 1993
• Cooper D E and Palmer J A The environment in question: Ethics and global issues Routledge, 1992
• Harrison P The third revolution: Population, environment and a sustainable world Penguin, 1993
• Mercer D C A question of balance: Natural resources conflict issues in Australia 2nd edn, Federation Press, 1995
• Saeger J The state of the environment atlas Penguin, 1995
• Turner R K and others Environmental economics: An elementary introduction Harvester, 1994
• World Bank World development report 1992: Development and the environment OUP, 1992
• World Resources Institute World resources 1994-95: A guide to the global environment - people and the environment OUP, 1994