Environmental research methodology
Dr Peter Cock, Associate Professor Paul Bishop and Mr Frank Fisher
24 points
* 2 hours per week
* All year
* Clayton
*
Prerequisites: ENV8270 (Multidisciplinary organisation)
Objectives On completion of this course, the student should have undertaken the team-based research and analysis necessary to prepare a multidisciplinary examination of an environmental issue for a client outside the Graduate School of Environmental Science and reported this work in a multidisciplinary group report (including an examination of the systems component of the research).
Synopsis This subject comprises the planning and reporting stages of the research program leading to the group report and research paper. The subject includes a workshop program on data collection and analysis, individual research paper preparation, report/research paper writing and a refresher lecture/seminar series on science and systems theory as applied to research and environmental change generally. The series requires an investigation of the social structures associated with candidates' research projects.
Assessment Group report (4000-6000 words): 54%
* Project brief (1000
words) and brief presentation: 11%
* Environmental symposium booklet (1000
words) display and presentation: 9%
* Group dynamics report (1000 words):
7%
* Workshop participation: 4%
* Overall individual performance in
group project: 4%
* Progress group report (2000-3000 words): Pass/Fail only
* Group dynamics progress report (1000 words): Pass/Fail only
*
Individual performance report (1000 words): Pass/Fail only
* `Science
Systems II': Two written/oral presentations (2000 words; 15 minutes each):
11%
Prescribed texts
GSES A guide to interdisciplinary research latest edition
On the application of systems/social construction:
Thompson M, Warburton M and Hatley T Uncertainty on a Himalayan scale Ethnographica, 1986
On critique and the transcendence of cognition:
Wilber K Eye to eye: The quest for the new paradigm Shambhala, 1990
Crawford J G The sustainable self: An inquiry into the metaphysics of sustainability and the self (Environmental Paper No. 10) GSES, 1993
Macy J Mutual causality in Buddhism and general systems theory: The Dharma of natural systems SUNYP, 1991
Spretnak C States of grace: The recovery of meaning in the postmodern age Harper, 1993
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