4 credit points in a Postgraduate program

(Professor Fagan)

Debates about globalisation seem to affect everyone everywhere during the first decade of the 21 st century. Terms like 'global' and 'local' are used widely in popular journalism and government policy-speak, as well as academia, as though their meaning is self-evident. Some social scientists have rated globalisation "...the most important concept in social sciences during the 1990s" but others argue its universal application to economic, social, cultural, political and environmental issues by 2000 rendered it little more than a buzzword. Either way, the concept is in urgent need of thorough critical re-examination. HGEO809 takes a step along this road.

HGEO809 Globalisation and Sustainable Development aims to:

•  explore globalisation from economic, socio-cultural, political and environmental standpoints;

•  apply contemporary, critical ways of thinking about globalisation to debates about sustainable development ;

•  use this framework to explore case studies of globalisation and sustainability in agrifood and energy sectors especially in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region.