| source University of Canterbury (X) |
level |
department Geography (X) |
The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the nature of major environmental changes at the global scale and to discuss a range of management strategies. Among the issues considered are population growth, food/fibre production, land degradation and global atmospheric processes. Goals of the course include: To understand how natural systems, such as the atmosphere and the carbon and hydrological cycles, operate. To assess the factors that drive human behaviour in respect of population, resource use and waste production. To investigate how people's activities affect natural systems, and the ways in which undesirable impacts can be regulated.
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This course examines processes of global urbanisation in a range of different contexts, discussing the causes, patterns and demands of urban growth, and focusing on questions of environmental and social sustainability posed by the challenges of continually evolving urban systems. Goals of the course include: To explore the different paths of urbanisation in the developed, developing and former socialist/post-socialist world. To analyse the environmental demands of urban growth and its social impacts. To focus on questions of environmental and social sustainability and the challenges posed by continually evolving urban forms.
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This course explores the challenges posed to sustainability in a rapidly changing world. It provides students with a deeper understanding of the physical, political and cultural dimensions of environmental degradation. It also considers the variety of ways in which the environment can be approached conceptually and how these conceptual understandings lead to particular forms of natural resource management. Goals of the course include: To investigate the environmental, political and cultural processes that bring resources into being and reproduce and sustain them, and to analyse how attributes of the environment become resources for human use. To explore the diversity of approaches and perspectives that exist about sustainability in both first-world and development contexts. To consider how sustainability is constructed and understood by different social groups and the implications of these understandings for sustainable resource use and management.
Score: 10.177928 Details | Listing | Web page