Natural Resource Management

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course introduces a conceptual framework for analysing and engaging with current issues and debates about the management of natural resources. This is achieved by analysing the history of natural resource management and how policy has shaped the sector in a local and global context. Contemporary debates around issues such as economic value, governance, stakeholder participation and control of and access to resources are discussed, drawing on different analytical frameworks. Specific problems are drawn from different industry sectors including agriculture, tourism and conservation, forestry, water, mining and fisheries using both Australian and international case studies. In this course, students will be exposed to natural resource policy and management through the context of an individual case study critique in which the ecological sustainable development paradigm is evaluated.