Postgraduate - UnitBTF5910 - Sustainability regulation

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Business Law and Taxation
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Wayne Gumley

Synopsis

This unit assists students to understand the regulatory framework supporting a transition to ecologically sustainable development in Australia, including an introduction to the Australian legal system and the role of international law, key principles of common law and relevant statutory schemes for protection of biodiversity, and regulation of pollution, urban and regional planning, environmental impact assessment and regulatory responses to climate change.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify and understand the regulatory framework supporting a transition to ecologically sustainable development in Australia
identify and analyse the application of the principles of ecologically sustainable at common law and under statutory regimes
understand the environmental responsibilities of industry and business managers in local and global transactions.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Wayne Gumley

Workload requirements

3 hours per week

Prohibitions

BTX9100