Master of Environment

Program Requirements

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 course topic below; and
30 approved units in an agreed area of specialisation chosen in consultation with a Program Convener from an extensive list of options.

For indicative approved and recommended courses see Annex 1 and 2 of the Fenner School Postgraduate Handbook.

A minimum of 12 units must be taken from relevant 8000 coded courses.

Students who maintain an average of at least 70% in 36 of the 48 units in the program may choose to continue in the Master of Environment (Research) which requires a further 24 units of research in ENVS8000F or ENVS8000P Masters Dissertation.

Indicative lists of courses in each of the 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
EMDV8121 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
ENVS6204 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
ENVS6306 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

Students who commenced the program prior to 2011 may opt to take up the new rules above or complete the degree under the pre-existing rules outlined below:

The program consists of 48 units comprising:

(a) 25% research essay option:

3 courses (18 units) from 3 of the 4 general topic areas of Economics & Governance, Environmental Science, Society & Environment, Research Methods
5 courses (30 units) from an agreed area of specialisation chosen in consultation with a Program Convener from an extensive list of options. These 30 units must include 12 units comprising a Major Research Essay on an approved topic. (maximum length 15,000 words).

(b) 50% sub-thesis option

3 courses (18 units) from 3 of the 4 general topic areas of Economics & Governance, Environmental Science, Society & Environment, Research Methods
Independent Research Project or Special Topic course (6 units) with the same prefix as that of the Sub-thesis;
Sub-thesis (ENVS7001) (24 units - length 20,000-25,000 words) on an agreed topic; the work must show wide reading and understanding as well as evidence of critical analysis and/or appropriate use of advanced techniques, at a higher level of development than the Major Research Essay.

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