Undergraduate - UnitATS2548 - Environmental policy and management

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Sustainability Environment and Society
Offered	Clayton First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Bruce Missingham

Notes

Previously coded GES2460

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to different perspectives and issues that influence environmental policy and management. It examines the rise of environmentalism as a broad based movement and how it has led to the framing of environmental problems by policy makers and managers in terms of state regulation, market-based, and citizen participation approaches. Themes include western ideas of property rights, neoliberalism and environmental governance, scientization of environmental knowledge, Indigenous environmental management, internationalisation of environmental policy and corporate environmentalism.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will:

Understand how environmental policy-making and management is positioned within governance structures and broader social and political contexts.
Understand the main approaches to policy and management
Understand the geographical relationship between environmental issues, policy and management across local, national, international, and global levels
Understand the strengths and limitations of scientific knowledge in environmental policy and management

Assessment

Essay: 40%
Tutorials presentation: 25%
Tutorial paper: 25%
Participation in tutorials: 10%
Total assessment: = 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Bruce Missingham

Workload requirements

One 1-hour lecture per week and
One 2-hour tutorial per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Geographical science
Geography, climate and physical environments
Society, cities and sustainability

Prerequisites

A first year sequence in gateway unit in Geographical Science or a gateway unit in Geography, climate and physical environments or Society, cities and sustainability or permission of unit coordinator.

Prohibitions

ATS3548, AZA2548, AZA3548