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ECON121 Environment and Food: Economic Perspectives

Updated: 09 December 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus C - Internet access required
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Mandatory weekend school in Sydney
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites None
Restrictions AGEC120 or ARE110 or ECON221
Notes None
Combined Units ECON221 - Environment and Food: Economic Perspectives
Coordinator(s) Jack Sinden (jsinden@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit addresses the major environmental, resource, and agricultural issues in the Australian economy. It introduces students to the basic economic concepts to analyse these issues, which include food security, sustainability, biodiversity and land degradation. As such, it provides necessary background for both the further study of agricultural and resource economics, agribusiness, and an understanding of public debate concerning agricultural and resource use issues.
Materials No text required
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 15% 1000
Assignment 2 15% 1000
Assignment 3 15% 1000
Final Examination 2 hrs 55%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-3 GA: 1, 3, 4, 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. introduce the basic economic principles of the market, demand, supply, price formation and externalities;
  2. analyse the important problems of environmental and resource management, including land degradation, loss of biodiversity, treatment of pollution and the quest for sustainability; and
  3. analyse the important problems of agriculture, food and population, including global food security, the short term agricultural problems including the long term problem of industry decline.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
This knowledge is extended through the teaching and learning activities of the unit. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
 True True True
4 Information Literacy
 True True True
6 Problem Solving
 True True True
7 Social Responsibility
 True
   

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