ENVH7731 Sustainable Development - Health Issues

2018

4.5

1 x 6-hour on-line exercises weekly

1 of ENVH4731, ENVH8731 has been successfully completed

Class Contact for Internal Students:

6 hour On-Line Exercises per week

1 Hour Tutorial per week

This topic is designed to examine issues of sustainable development as they are relevant to creating healthy environments for people to live in. The topic examines the complexity of population change, resource management and climate change and looks at the links between society, economics, politics and environment and how they impact on environmental health development. We consider relevant principles of environmental protection, ecologically sustainable development and the precautionary principle. The topic also focuses on the impacts of local and global pollution and environmental degradation and considers resource depletion and consumption and environmental protection.

At the completion of this topic, students are expected to be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of sustainable development and other relevant concepts and their application in environmental health
2. Understand the influence of social, economic, cultural and political contexts on environmental health outcomes
3. Understand the influence of climate change on environmental health and identify ways in which environmental health professionals can advocate remedies to minimise public health impacts