GEO360 Catchment Management through Community Development (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Soil and Water Sciences (SOWAT)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
In this subject you will learn how Australia is attempting to tackle natural resource problems at a regional scale. The subject covers the institutional framework for catchment management and community development. Students also gain key skills in program design, program logic, group facilitation, conflict resolution, social justice, and adaptive management. Examples of water reform, catchment authorities, landcare and water-watch are explored. There is a compulsory field trip associated with this subject to look at some of these issues. The subject contains a total estimated workload of 150 hours.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
| Distance * | Albury-Wodonga |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: GEO360
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
be able to:
- describe the importance and theoretical foundations of adopting integrated catchment management and have a sound knowledge of how it is being delivered
- describe the importance and theoretical foundations of community capacity building and have a sound knowledge of how it is being delivered
- describe importance and theoretical foundations of social justice principles in managing processes that reduce rates of exploitation of natural resources
- explain how critical issues are currently being addressed coherently through catchment management, capacity building and social justice processes and critically appraise the ability of these approaches to enhance outcomes at the landscape scale.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Regional natural resource management in Australia
- Sustainable land use
- Participatory democracy: case study of action research and landcare
- Representative and deliberative democracy: case studies of catchment management and water reform
Residential School
This subject contains a compulsory 4 day residential school.
This residential provides a unique opportunity to learn some basic methods involved in the delivery of incentives; the social dynamics that occurs in contested complex arguments; learn from and meet experts working in the field; and to a lesser extent check your learning about the subject and meet other students.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.