Master of Environment (Research)
The program requires completion of 72 units comprising coursework and research components:
1. The coursework component requires completion of 48 units of courses including:
• 18 units from three of the four general topic areas of Economics & Governance, Environmental Science, Society & Environment, and Research Methods to be selected from the indicative courses listed below.
• 30 approved units in an agreed area of specialisation chosen in consultation with a Program Convener from an extensive list of options.
At least 12 out of 48 units must be taken from relevant 8000 coded courses.
Student must maintain an average of at least 70% in 36 of the 48 units of the Coursework component to continue to the Research component.
2. The research component requires completion of 24 units of research to be taken either full time in one semester or part time over two semesters as ENVS8000F or ENVS8000P Masters Dissertation.
Indicative lists of courses in each of the four general topic areas are:
Economics & Governance
• BUSI8042 Managing People and Organisations
• CRWF8000 Government, Markets & Global Change
• CRWF8001 Economic Globalisation and the Environment
• CRWF8003 International Water Politics
• CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy Economics
• CRWF8014 Domestic Climate Change Policy Economics
• ECON8040 Resource and Environmental Economics
• EMDV8078 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
• EMDV8104 Environmental Governance
• EMDV8108 Applied Environmental and Resource Management
• EMDV 8121 Greening of Business
• ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy
• ENVS6528 Environmental Policy
• IDEC8053 Environmental Economics
• IDEC8088 Applied Cost Benefit Analysis
• IDEC8017 Econometric Techniques
• IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy
• LAWS6503 Law and the Environment
• LAWS8123 Water Resources Law
• LAWS8146 Environmental Landuse Planning Law
• LAWS8201 Fundamentals of Environmental Law
• LAWS8280 Biodiversity Law and Policy
Environmental Science
• EMDV8026 Environmental Science for Managers
• ENVS6004 Weather, Climate and Fire
• ENVS6022 Hydrology and Landforms for Natural Resource Management
• ENVS6308 Fire in the Environment
• ENVS6010 Australia’s Forests
• ENVS6012 Sustainable Systems: Rural
• ENVS6023 Vegetation and Soils: Landscape Co-evolution
• ENVS6104 Australia’s Environment
• ENVS6302 Sustainable Agricultural Practices
• ENVS6303 Climatology (biennial; next offered in 2012)
• ENVS6304 Land and Catchment Management
• ENVS6307 Climate Change Science and Policy (biennial; next offered 2011)
• ENVS6312 Geomorphology: landscape evolution under changing climate
• ENVS6514 Ecological Restoration and Management
• ENVS6529 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction
• ENVS6555 Water Resource Management
• ENVS6026 Managing Forested Landscapes
• ENVS6024 Biodiversity Conservation in modified Landscapes
• ENVS8003 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation
• ENVS8005 Climate Change Science
Society & Environment
• ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
• ANTH8008 Social Impact Studies in the Project Cycle
• ANTH8009 Development in Practice
• ANTH8014 Mining Projects and Indigenous Peoples
• ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis
• ANTH8021 Modelling Human Ecosystems with Agents
• ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies
• ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy
• ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Approaches
• ANTH8038 Introduction to Gender and Development
• ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
• ANTH8047 Resource Projects and Indigenous Peoples
• EMDV8001 Environment Sustainability Health and Development
• EMDV8007 Environmental Communications
• EMDV8032 Law, Order and Conflict in the Pacific
• EMDV8101 State, Society and Natural Resources
• ENVS6005 Sustainable Systems: Urban
• ENVS6013 Society and Environmental Change
• ENVS6014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability
• ENVS6017 Vietnam Field School
• ENVS6020 Human Ecology
• ENVS6021 Participatory Resource Management
• ENVS6101 Resources, Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability
• ENVS6108 Sustainable Development
• ENVS6506 Human Futures
• POGO8008 Participation and Program Management
• POGO8061 Gender and Policy
Research Methods
• ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis
• EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-making
• EMDV8102 Tools and Processes for Environmental and Resource Management
• EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment
• ENVS6014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability
• ENVS6015 GIS and Spatial Analysis
• ENVS6025 Solving Complex Environmental Problems
• ENVS6056 Quantitative Environmental Research Methods
• ENVS6103 Environment and Society Research Methods
• ENVS8049 Independent Research Project
• MATH6102 Environmental Modelling and Integrated Assessment
• MATH6103 Scientific and Industrial Modelling
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