MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
GES3470
Development and environment in Asia-Pacific and Australia
P Marden
12 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prerequisites:
Any second-year human geography subject or permission of the head. Students are
advised to have completed GES2650.
Synopsis The Asia-Pacific region is recognised as a major area of
growth, and Australia's future is increasingly seen as linked with this region.
In this subject the causes of rapid growth are examined, and the role of
Australia in the emerging division of labour in the region is evaluated. Of
particular concern are the long-term development prospects of the `miracle'
economies of Asia within the context of a changing global political-economy.
Issues such as nationalism, superpower politics, and strategic interests are
examined. Particular emphasis is given to the environmental implications of
continued growth in the region. The political, social, and cultural dimensions
of change are explored as well as the economic. Particular emphasis is placed
on the social and cultural aspects of change in this dynamic region, with a
specific focus on Australia's role.
Assessment Written (6000 words): 60% + Examinations (3 hours): 30% +
Tutorial: 10%
Recommended texts
- Bello W People and power in the Pacific Pluto Press, 1992
- Bello W and Rosenfeld S Dragons in distress Penguin, 1992
- Daly M and Logan M The brittle rim Penguin, 1989
- Deyo F (ed.) The political economy of the new Asian
industrialisation Cornell U P, 1987
- Evans G Cooperating for peace: the global agenda for the 1990s and
beyond Allen and Unwin, 1993
- Evans G and Grant B Australia's foreign relations MUP, 1991
- Garnaut R Australia and the Northeast Asian ascendancy AGPS, 1989
- Grant B What kind of country Penguin, 1988
- Harris S and Cotton J (eds) The end of the Cold War in Northeast East
Asia Longman, 1991
- Hewison K and others (eds) Southeast Asia in the 1990s Allen and
Unwin, 1993
- Higgott R, Leaver R and J Ravenhill (eds) Pacific economic relations in
the 1990s: Coooperation or conflict? Allen and Unwin, 1993
- Higgott R A and Robison R (eds) South East Asia: Essays in the political
economy of structural change RKP, 1985
- Redclift M Sustainable development: Exploring the contradictions
Methuen, 1987
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