Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

184GEOG2048.Environmental hazards * (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course examines a range of environmental hazards of geological, geomorphological, atmospheric,biological and human origin focussing on their origins, characteristics and impacts on human society. Itwill also deal with the responses available to different societies to deal with these hazards includingdisaster relief, loss sharing and event modification adjustments as well as comprehensive hazardplanning and management principles. Where practicable local and regional examples will be used asillustrations.Assessment: 40% coursework, 60% examination.This course will be offered in the second semester.GEOG2049.GIS in transport planning and management # (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)The increased complexity and rapid development of transport network warrant the use of computerizedtechniques to undertake traffic control, monitoring, and analysis and planning. GIS is emerging as avaluable tool in transport-related areas that involve logistics and use of transportation services. Thiscourse covers the requirements and basic methods of constructing a transport database for themanagement of infrastructure or logistical problems, and for transportation-related services such asdelivery and emergency routing. Extensive information and hands-on training in event routing, addressmatching, hotlinking and the use of data libraries using selected software are presented.Assessment: 40% coursework, 60% examination.This course will be offered in the second semester.GEOG2050.Modern environmentalism: society-environment relations # (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course presents an introduction to environmentalism, which encompasses a set of beliefs andactivities which inform and flow from a concern with the environment. Environmentalism has begun toassert itself globally (since the 1960s/1970s) and locally (from the late 1980s) as a significant force inresponse to, and sometimes influencing, patterns of development. This course will trace the emergenceof environmentalism at both the global and local levels. It will examine the evolving linkages betweenenvironmentalism and some central societal issues such as social justice, poverty, and gender. Theresponses of the business sector to increasing public concern for the environment, as well as mountingopposition to environmentalism, will be considered. The course will conclude with a discussion onvarious manifestations of environmentalism in Hong Kong to illustrate the complex relations betweensociety and environment in a compact and high-density metropolitan milieu.Assessment: 40% coursework, 60% examination.This course will be offered in the second semester.# = Course to be offered in biennial odd year, i.e. in 2003-04, 2005-06 and so on.* = Course to be offered in biennial even year, i.e. in 2002-03, 2004-05 and so on.