10 Geography - One semester

• How can the spatial variation between places and changes in environments be explained?

• What management options exist for sustaining human and natural systems into the future?

• How do world views influence decisions on how to manage environmental and social change?

Topic 1: Development

• Measuring and mapping human wellbeing and development.

• Reasons for spatial variations between countries in selected indicators of human wellbeing. 

• Issues affecting development of places and their impact on human wellbeing, drawing on a case studies from South East Asia.

 Topic 2: Disparities

• Reasons for, and consequences of, spatial variations in human wellbeing in South Australia at the local scale 

• Investigate programs designed to reduce differences in wellbeing in SE Asia or South Australia

Topic 3: Environment

• Biodiversity and the human impact on rainforests

• Sustainability and the human footprint

Topic 4: River Ecosystems

• A comparative study of two inland water ecosystems in Australia (The Murray Darling Basin) and Asia (The Mekong Basin).