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Environment, Sustainability and Development - COMD2050
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: http://hps.arts.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Equivalent: ENVP2001, HPSC2550, INST2401
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course is about sustainable development along with the technological and social changes that are involved in achieving it, both at a national and global level. It is divided into three parts: (1) the historical causes of the present global environmental and economic crisis; (2) possible solutions to problems of food production, environmental degradation, industrialisation, energy use, and population growth; (3) ideas for a New World Economic Order and the economic and technological changes required to bridge the ever increasing gap between rich and poor nations.

Learning Outcomes

This course should help students to:
  • Understand the causes of the current global environmental and natural resource crisis, and gain some insight into the possible technological, economic and political solutions
  • Provide the intellectual tools to analyse the extreme inequality between rich and poor countries, and think critically about the problems this presents for attaining a just and sustainable international economic system.

Assessment

  • Major essay (3000 words) - 50%
  • Tutorial presentation - 10%
  • Tutorial participation - 10%
  • Tutorial session journal - 30%

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