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Offered By
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School of Resources Environment & Society
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Academic Career
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Undergraduate
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Course Subject
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Environmental Science
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Offered in
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Second Semester, 2009 and Second Semester, 2010
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Unit Value
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6 units
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Course Description
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Planning for the sustainable or long-term "wise use" of natural resources is contentious and increasingly complex. Such planning can only be achieved by teams who can integrate knowledge and information from a wide range of disciplines and practices. The course uses a problem-based learning approach to focus on the application of forest ecology, silviculture, GIS and modelling to the planning of a sizable public native forest. The course covers theories and approaches to planning and "optimisation" and also integrates resource inventories (wildlife, timber, landscape quality, recreation), codes of forest practice, fire management principles, environmental statements, and local government, state and Commonwealth policies.
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Indicative Assessment
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A review of information needs and key aspects of an inventory or data collection approach to support forest planning (5 pages; 25%), A Management Plan for natural forest that integrates the data supplied during previous inventories, Regional Forest Assessments and the Codes of Forest practice, Environmental statements and principles, etc. (3-4 person teams; 25 pages; 55%), An oral presentation of the above Plan that demonstrates teamwork and integration of knowledge from all relevant aspects (3-4 person teams; 45 minutes; 15%) A written debrief of the overall exercise (5%). |
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Workload
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Areas of Interest
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Resource Management and Environmental Science
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Requisite Statement
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96 units towards a degree, including knowledge of forest measurement and silviculture equivalent to ENVS2009 and ENVS3014 respectively. |
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Incompatibility
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Preliminary Reading
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Dargavel, J., 1995, Fashioning Australia's Forests, Oxford. Ferguson, I.S., 1996, Sustainable Forest Management, Oxford. Florence, R.G., 1996, Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests, CSIRO, Melbourne. |
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Science Group
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C
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Academic Contact
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Dr Cris Brack and Staff from Forests NSW assist in fieldwork associated with the preparation of the major project
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