ERST 313
Catchment Management
Course overview
You¡¯ll examine the critical relationship between water, people and land and the issues that turn up at the catchment scale. Plus, local and international experiences and perspectives on catchment management.
Course information
| Prerequisites and Restrictions | You must satisfy the following requirement(s):
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| Available semesters | Semester 2 2024 Semester 2 2025 |
| Credits | 15 |
| Domestic fees | $1,027.00 |
What you will learn
After successfully completing this course, you¡¯ll be able to:
- Characterise the catchment approach to management.
- Explain the historical, social, economic and environmental factors that can influence the cumulative effects of land use activities on receiving environments.
- Compare and contrast the role of different governance systems in the implementation of catchment management.
- Compare and evaluate local and international catchment management approaches to characterise issues, their water-land-people interactions and challenges.
- Apply theory, procedures and tools to interpret catchment scale environmental data.
- Evaluate the role of values and interests in the use of water resources and their role in the interpretation of science in catchment management.
Course examiners
