Course

Addressing Environmental Issues - IEST5003

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Humanities and Languages

Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: IEST5001 and IEST5002, or IEST5001 and enrolment in Environmental Management Stream A

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course illustrates the nature of, and need for, multi- or trans-disciplinary approaches for addressing environmental problems of national and/or global importance. Group work seminar presentations will draw on current or recent key environmental issues and will be supported by brief lectures. Some of the topics you will cover are: environmental governance, international environmental regimes/conventions; framing and defining environmental issues; public participation and stakeholder engagement in decision making; integrated and forward looking analysis; planning for sustainable development; science, risk and knowledge; complex systems and adaptive management; sustainable natural resource management; environmental impacts of production and consumption.
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