We use our natural systems to produce a range of goods and services that benefit and sustain society. Unfortunately, many of these activities have caused (and continue to cause) substantial environmental problems. Innumerable plant and animal species have been destroyed and many ecosystems sustaining human and non humans have been seriously compromised. Modern environmental problems like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution also negatively affect people’s quality of life and can reduce their safety and security.
Environmental management is about controlling those negative effects on the environment and its component parts: climate, atmosphere, energy, water, land, biota, soil, as well as society and culture. We use environmental management to try and protect ecosystems and biodiversity, minimise waste and pollution, or increase the efficient use of natural resources and energy. Contemporary environmental management is 1. informed by the fundamental principle of sustainability, 2. implemented through particular processes and systems that guide the application of 3. a variety of technical tools/elements/expertise (Thomas & Murfitt 2011).
EMDV 8108 (Applied Environmental & Resource Management) will focus on all three of those elements by examining how modern environmental management is used by many different people to solve a range of problems in diverse settings, such as urban, coastal and rural places. Essentially, the Course is as much about the choices and efforts of those people as it is about the physical environment and resources at which their efforts are aimed. This is because multiple, interacting and highly complex social factors shape and often challenge our ability to design and implement effective solutions to environmental problems.
Structure – the first third of the course examines key principles and tools and encourages active participation of the student in class discussions and tutorials. There will also be guest speakers. The course will then move to looking at how some of the key ideas and tools are applied in particular settings, with a focus on field trips to urban-inland areas, protected areas, and coastal areas in the Canberra region and other areas of New South Wales.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
Upon completion of EMDV 8108, students will have the knowledge required to understand a selection of challenges to using environmental and natural resource management frameworks and tools in contemporary settings. Students will be able to:• Understand and describe a selection of key principles and frameworks that underpin environmental and natural resource management;
• Understand and describe how a selection of environmental and natural resource management tools are used in real world settings;
• Recognise and describe a range of social and technical challenges in a variety of environmental management and natural resource management situations.
Indicative Assessment
Written assignments 50%, on-line discussion 25%, learning journal 25%
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Workload
4
Fees
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $3762 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $4566 |
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First Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2304 | 16 Feb 2015 | 06 Mar 2015 | 31 Mar 2015 | 29 May 2015 | In Person | N/A |
