Development and the environment - worlds apart?
Dr Stephen Legg
8 points
* 4 hours per week
* Second semester
* Peninsula
*
Prerequisites: A first-year geography sequence, or permission of the head of
department
Objectives On completion of this unit students should be able to explain the costs and benefits of various types of development; identify likely areas of conflict over resource exploitation issues; critically analyse different management responses; and compare and contrast major development issues throughout the Asia/Pacific region.
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%
Prescribed texts
Miller M A L The Third World in global environmental politics Lynne Reiner, 1995
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
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