ENVS3031 Murray-Darling Field School

Later Year Course

Offered By

School of Resources Environment & Society

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Course Subject

Environmental Science

Offered in

ENVS3031 will not be offered in 2009

Unit Value

6 units

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to give students the opportunity to explore in the field environmental policy and planning issues. The course builds on material developed in the ANU based GEOG3028 first semester course. Environmental policy and planning themes explored in the field trip will include community participation, the role of Indigenous people, environmental education, respective roles of legislation, landcare, catchment management, coordination of different spheres of government and economic and other incentives and disincentives. As well as site visits, students will receive talks and lectures from key environmental policy and planning policy makers, managers and participants as the field trip travels through communities in the Murray-Darling Basin. A number of community forums will be held where the class will have the opportunity to interact with community members.

Indicative Assessment

To be negotiated with students - a literature review (20%), a field report (60%) and a final PowerPoint presentation (20%). Students will be encouraged to use web-based means of presenting their findings to make them accessible to the communities that the class will work with. This could be done for example through PowerPoint based final seminars that are subsequently mounted on the web or through web based projects (see http://fennerschool-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/teaching/epp/index.html for examples from previous classes).

Workload

Week long field trip in the September lecture break, plus day long weekend pre-trip briefing lectures and day long weekend post trip student seminars.

Areas of Interest

Resource Management and Environmental Science

Requisite Statement

96 units towards a degree, including ENVS3028

Incompatibility

with GEOG3031 or SRES3031.

Preliminary Reading

Murray-Darling-Basin Commission webpage: http://www.mdbc.gov.au/

Material on policy lessons to be drawn from the Murray-Darling Basin on the SRES3028 webpage - go to: http://fennerschool-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/SRES3028/index.html click on Lecture list and linked tutorial reading and lecture notes and click on the Murray-Darling Basin tutorial topic.

Majors/Specialisations

Environmental Studies and Geography

Other Information

This course will not be offered in 2009.

Science Group

Academic Contact

Dr Richard Baker

The information published on the Study at ANU 2009 website applies to the 2009 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2008 website.