Environmental Management
UndergraduateTAS-KGA2232025
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- 100% online
- Assessments
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- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Environmental Management
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse the context of, and conflicts associated with, environmental management/sustainability issues.
- Assess the roles and responsibilities of governments, the private sector and civil society in relation to environmental management.
- Evaluate regulatory, economic and voluntary instruments, and decision-making frameworks employed in environmental management.
- Formulate and communicate effective management solutions and communication strategies through team-based and individual projects.
- Module 1: The Problem and Context of Environmental Issues
- What is environmental management and why do we need it?
- Historical context of environmental management and sustainability
- Environmental values, ecosystem functions and services
- Environmental governance: roles of government, private sector and civil society
- Decision making frameworks used in environmental management
- Module 2: Menu of Options: Management Instruments and Methods
- Regulatory approaches, environmental legislation and the State
- Economic approaches, market-based instruments and the private sector
- Voluntary approaches, deep ecology and non-government organisations
- Behavioural insights, choice architecture and nudges
- Module 3: Wheels within Wheels: Management in Practice
- Environmental information sources, types, applications and validity
- Environmental evaluation, indicators, assessment, reporting and monitoring
- Structural causes of management failure (or success)
- Implementation traps and knowledge issues affecting failure (or success)
- Module 4: What can be Done Differently: Management Solutions
- Adaptive, integrative and participative management frameworks
- Management in the context of Aboriginal and indigenous communities
- Changing paradigms in current practice and ‘working with nature’
- Material cycles and sufficiency-oriented strategies with reference to SDGs
- Module 5: Getting Organised: Stakeholder Engagement
- Means and mechanisms of public participation in environmental management
- Social (and behavioural) change factors and models
- Communication theories and messaging for change
- Developing a communication plan, its ingredients and uses
- Module 6: From the Horse's Mouth: Management in the Real World
- Environmental management in contemporary practice: with guest speakers
- Can I have a career related to environmental management?
- Module 7: Making Sense of Environmental Management
- Unit integration, summary, review and feedback
- Making sense of KGA223
Society needs professional environmental managers who have the knowledge and skills to effectively tackle problems of sustainable resource use, climate change and biodiversity conservation. Environmental managers also play an important role in helping communities identify and move towards sustainable and just futures. Environmental management is about how we (institutions and individuals) try to identify, protect and enhance environmental values. So we start by examining the variety and meanings of such values. We then explore the various means - the menu of options - for delivering environmental outcomes. These options include instruments such as legislation and market-based approaches; and methods such as community engagement and outreach. We also critically examine the effectiveness of such measures, and consider how we might achieve better management outcomes. These topics are exemplified through case studies in land use planning, food systems, waste management, coastal management, wetlands and biodiversity conservation.
- Summative Test (30%)
- Environmental Management Plan (40%)
- Workshop Outputs (30%)
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- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 3-hour seminar in weeks 1,3,5,7,9,11,13. 3-hour workshop in weeks 2,4,6,8,10,12. About 6 hours of self-directed learning in weeks 1-13, and about 18 hours for exam revision and the final test at the end of the Semester.
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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