Degree Structure

SPECIALISATIONS FOR MASTER OF ENVIRONMENT

Specialisations reflect strengths in teaching and research across the ANU. These are

Integrated Assessment Modelling

Convenors: Dr Barry Croke and Professor Tony Jakeman

Practical and philosophical training in use of models to understand natural water resource systems, to predict the consequences of future scenarios, investigate trade-offs, engage the various interest groups, and to inform policy and management.

Recommended Courses

ENVS6034 Water Quality and Environmental Flow Assessment

ENVS6021 Participatory Resource Management:  addressing environmental conflict

MATH6102 Environmental Modelling and Integrated Assessment

ENVS6035  Bayesian Networks for Natural Resource Management

ENVS6056 Ecological Measurement and Modelling

MATH6103 Scientific and Industrial Modelling

 

Water Science and Management

Convenors: Professor Tony Jakeman and Professor Tony Jakeman

Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary training in the science and integrated management of water with the option of taking courses that cover the role of modelling in the process of management and decision making.

CHEM8024 Environmental Chemistry

ENVS6034 Water Quality and Environmental Flow Assessment

ENVS6304 Land and Catchment Management

EMSC6025 Groundwater

MATH6102 Environmental Modelling and Integrated Assessment

ENVS6208 Hydrology for Natural Resource Management

ENVS6035 Bayesian Networks for Natural Resources Management

EMSC6028 Coastal Environmental Earth Science

 

Global Change

Convenors: Dr Janette Lindesay and Professor Brendan Mackey

Understanding of the complex climate and other global change issues, in particular giving the background to tackle the big questions surrounding climate adaptation and vulnerability.

CRWF8006 Climate Change Policy Economics

ENVS6301 Climate Change Science and Policy Field School (not offered 2010)

ENVS6307 Climate Change Science and Policy (not offered 2010)

ENVS8002 Climate Change Vulnerability & Adaptation

ENVS6204 Weather, Climate and Fire

ENVS6303 Climatology (next offered in 2010)

ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy

ENVS8005 Climate Change Science

 

Environmental Policy

Convenors: Dr Richard Baker and Professor Stephen Dovers

Foundational and applied learning in public policy, placed firmly within the context of climate impacts and adaptation, landscape management and water resource management.

ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy

ENVS6600 Forest Policies and Practice

LAWS8108 Natural Resources Law and Policy

ENVS6528 Environmental Policy and Planning

ENVS8004 Environmental Policy and Institutions

LAWS8280 Biodiversity Law and Policy

 

Integrative Methods and Practice

Convenors: Dr Robert Dyball and Dr Kate Sherren

Enables students to develop the integrative and interdisciplinary capacities needed to solve major sustainability challenges. Courses address interdisciplinary theory, their methodological expression, and their application to specific problems and topic areas.

ENVS6014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability

ENVS6103 Environment and Society Research Methods

MATH6102 Environmental Modelling and Integrated Assessment

ENVS6036 Integrative Research Methods

ENVS6035 Bayesian Networks for Natural Resource Management

 

Natural Resource Management

Convenors: Dr Richard Greene and Sara Beavis

Allows students to focus on specific NRM arenas, such as agricultural systems, forests, freshwater, and soil resources.

ENVS6206 Landforms and Soils: Landscape Systems 2

ENVS6302 Soil Resources

ENVS6312 Geomorphology: Landscape Evolution under Changing Climate

ENVS8002 Biodiversity Conservation in Modified Landscapes 

ENVS6019 Vegetation Ecology: Landscape Systems 1

ENVS6304 Land and Catchment Management

ENVS6514 Ecological Restoration and Management

ENVS6035 Bayesian Networks for Natural Resource Management

 

Society and Environment

Convenors: Professor Peter Kanowski and Dr Jacki Schirmer

Focuses on the relationships between people and their environment, at a range of scales and in a diversity of contexts, allowing students to engage with an array of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives which inform these relationships.

ENVS6005 Cities and their Hinterlands

ENVS6013 Environment and Development: exploring interactions through theory & practice 

ENVS6020 Human Ecology

ENVS6021 Participatory Resource Management: addressing environmental conflict

ENVS6101 Resources, Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability

ENVS6108 Contemporary Issues in Asia & Australia: and introduction to social theory & practice

ENVS6306 Human Futures

 

 

 

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