This course examines the social dimensions of sustainable development with particular attention to issues related to the effective implementation of collaborative resource management and development. The course commences with an examination of theories and management approaches that support: collaborations between communities, government, and non-government sectors; organisational and institutional change, and social learning. Case studies and guest speakers provide insights into the ways environmental management practitioners address: different ways of knowing, conflicts over resource use, uneven power relations, and tensions between levels of government and resource sectors. The case studies will cover a range of sectors and may include forest management, coastal and marine management, biodiversity conservation, catchment management, and waste management. Workshops provide an opportunity for students to develop skills in collaborative resource management.

Literature review; major research paper (including a case study); examination; oral presentation. [Note the oral presentation will draw on the student’s literature review or case study.]

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Borrini-Feyerabend, G., M. Taghi Farvar, J.C. Nguinguiri and V. Ndangang. 2001. Co-management of Natural Resources: organising, negotiating and learning-by-doing. Gland, Switzerland: The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and GTZ.
C. Leeuwis and R. Pyburn (eds.) 2002. Wheelbarrows Full of Frogs: Social learning in rural resource management. Assen, Netherlands: Koninklijke Van Gorcum.
Ross, H., M. Buchy and W. Proctor. 2002. Laying Down the Ladder: A typology of public participation in Australian natural resource management, Australian Journal of Environmental Management, 8, 2, 205-17.

Note - cannot also be credited with FSTY8037 Social Forestry.