The course considers environmental policy and planning theory and practice at scales from the local to the global. Interactive lectures and tutorials provide students with opportunities to analyse specific environmental planning and policy issues in theoretical frameworks and over different time scales. Case studies explored include land care, forest policy and planning, the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement, the "greening" of business, cultural heritage and the role of Indigenous people in environmental policy and planning.

Honours Pathway Option

Students taking this option must complete weekly an extra piece of reading and give analysis in their Learning Portfolio of how it is relevant to the course.  A seminar to the class that analyses an example of effective environmental policy replaces the briefing paper.  All other assessment and requirements remain the same.

see http://fennerschool-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/ENVS3028/assessment.html

Briefing paper (20%), tutorial facilitation (25%), choice of tutorial paper/webpage worth (30%), Learning Portfolio 25%. Regular attendance and participation in class work is required. Students who fail to submit set work by the due date or fail to participate in classes may be excluded from examination.

4 contact hours a week comprising lectures and tutorials, plus a one off two-hour workshop at a time over the semester.

GEOG3010, GEOG3028, FSTY4106 or SRES3028.

Bridgman, P. and Davis, G. 2004. The Australian policy handbook. 3rd edition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Dovers, S and Wild River, S. (eds) 2003. Managing Australia's Environment, The Federation Press.

Dovers, S. 2005. Environment and sustainability policy: creation, implementation, evaluation. Sydney: The Federation Press.

Course webpage - http://fennerschool-lectures.anu.edu.au/lectures/2009/ENVS3028/