Abstract

Maintaining natural resources including biodiversity, minerals, and water in the face of increasing pressures and threats is a major challenge for traditional owners, other stakeholders, practitioners and scientists. This subject provides an introduction of how such resources are managed. Topics include the nature of natural resources and examinations of the … For more content click the Read More button below.

Syllabus

Introduction to natural resource management (NRM);Current natural resource issues and management in Australia;Traditional and historical perspectives on Indigenous Australian and other knowledge about NRMKey stakeholders involved in NRM;Key policies for NRM;Case studies 1: practical approaches to NRM;Indigenous Australian NRM: foundations and connection to Country;Case studies 2: Indigenous Australian approaches to … For more content click the Read More button below.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
1.
be able to identify a natural resource and define natural resources management;
2.
be able to discuss a range of natural resource management issues and approaches to managing them;
3.
be able to explain the importance of Indigenous Australian natural resource management;
4.
be able to review and discuss the roles of natural resource policy mechanisms and tools; and
5.
be able to apply knowledge and skills to explain the human dimensions underpinning natural resource management.

Enrolment restrictions

Students who have completed either PKM160 or GEO105 may not enrol in this subject.