PPHR9742 Population and Environment

Professor Udoy Saikia

2012

4.5

1 x 2-hour lecture weekly
3 x 3-hour seminars per semester

1 of DVST9024, PPHR9013 has been successfully completed

The topic introduces basic concepts and analysis of ecosystems and key inter-relationships between population and environment within the context of development issues and policies. It deals with resource depletion and management, land use and agricultural systems related to population pressure, population mobility, population policies, urbanisation and the environment, and integrated approaches to population-environment planning.

The aim of the topic is to introduce participants to the basic concepts and the analysis of ecosystems and to key inter-relationships between population and environment within the context of development issues and policies.

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

Discuss the complexity of the inter-relationships between population and environment
Describe major dynamics of global population change and of the great variations in these dynamics between and within major world regions
Evaluate the more important theories advanced to explain these population dynamics
Explain how natural ecosystems function and of the impact of human intervention on the sustainability of these natural and man-modified ecosystems
Use selected case studies which illustrate the complexity of population-environment inter-relationships and the difficulty of policy making in the more and less developed regions of the world
Independently research an aspect of population-environment nexus and present the results of the research in a professional form, both written and oral

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