GEOG 353 — PRINCIPLES OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT I
BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
This course aims to introduce students to the various concepts and issues of rural development. It pays particular attention to student’s understanding of the rural environment and its implications for development. Issues of concern include the concept of rural resource development and the need for regional policy, the physical basis of rural development: hydrology, and agro-climatology, evapotranspiration and water resources, soils and vegetation, rural population dynamics – sources of basic demographic data: population composition, components of population changes, settlement types and functions. It will also focus on the social structure and organisation of rural communities, Optimization of rural land use and sustainable development: Von Thunen Theory, Linear programming etc.
- Credits
- 0
- Level
- Level 300
Other courses on this programme
- GEOG 351 — RESEARCH METHODS IN GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 354 — APPLIED RURAL DEVELOPMENT II
- GEOG 355 — REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA
- GEOG 356 — REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF WEST AFRICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GHANA
- GEOG 357 — GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY I
- GEOG 358 — GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY II
- GEOG 359 — CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY I
- GEOG 360 — CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY II
- GEOG 361 — REMOTE SENSING I
- GEOG 362 — GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
- GEOG 363 — RURAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS I
- GEOG 364 — RURAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS II
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