Overview | Honours | Summary of Courses

Offered By:	ANU Joint Colleges of Science
Academic Contact:	Professor Peter Kanowski
Areas of Interest:	Environmental Studies, Forestry, Geography, Interdisciplinary Studies - Sustainability, and Resource Management and Environmental Science

Description:

The minor in Forest Science and Policy offers students a focus on aspects of forest science and policy fundamental to the conservation and sustainable management of forests. Courses in the minor emphasise field-based and experiential learning, and practical approaches to addressing forest science, management and policy challenges.

Learning Goals:

On completion of the minor in Forest Science and Policy students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Understand the principles of forest science that underpin forest conservation and sustainable management at a range of scales.
2. Apply the wide range of tools employed by forest scientists and managers, including literature reviews, field surveys, analysis of theory, and analysis of data.
3. Understand the policy and social contexts under which forest conservation and management must operate, and how professionals and the community engage with them.
4. Understand and apply strategies for the sustainable management of forested landscapes, and their component parts.
5. Synthesise knowledge and data related to forest science and policy and communicate this in appropriate ways.
6. Identify potential career paths in forest sciences, forest management, and forest policy.

Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

 

A total of 6 units from the following compulsory course:

ENVS3041  Managing Forested Landscapes

 

A total of 18 units to be chosen from the following courses including:

A maximum of 6 units chosen from the following 2000 level courses:

ENVS2003 Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology

ENVS2004  Weather, Climate and Fire

ENVS2014  Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability

ENVS2015  GIS and Spatial Analysis

ENVS2021  Vegetation and Soils: Landscape Co-evolution and Ecology

6 to 12 units chosen from the following 3000 level courses:

ENVS3008  Fire in the Environment

ENVS3014  Ecological Assessment and Management

ENVS3039  Biodiversity Conservation

6 to 12 units chosen from the following list:

ENVS2010  Australia’s Forests

ENVS3007  Participatory Resource Management: Working with Communities and Stakeholders

ENVS3028  Environmental Policy

ENVS3033  International Environmental Policy

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