AZA3548 Environmental policy and resource management
Faculty of Arts
AZA3548 Environmental policy and resource management is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at South Africa. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1
- South Africa
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2022 entry.
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Requisites
Before AZA3548
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After AZA3548
No unit lists AZA3548 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibitions: AZA2548, ATS2548, ATS3548
Overview
Environmental policy and resource management: A purposeful activity with the aim to maintain and improve the state of the environment and its resources affected by human activities. It addresses the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment and how to ensure that ecosystem are protected and maintained for equitable use by future human generations, and also, maintain ecosystem integrity as an end in itself by taking into consideration ethical, economic, and scientific (ecological) variables. Issues of governance, policy and regulation are addressed. Themes include the internationalisation of environmental policy, the rise of corporate environmentalism, native title and indigenous rights, and the importance of property rights. Environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment, corporate environmental auditing, state of the environment reporting, and public participation.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | South Africa | On campus |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Understand the social, political and institutional underpinning of environmental policy-making and environmental management;
- 2
Recognise the importance of maintaining and extending disciplinary perspectives in environmental policy and management;
- 3
Use case studies to help explain the nature of the evolution and implementation of environmental policies in various national and international settings;
- 4
Understand the characteristics and role of specific methods and techniques that are used in the context of environmental management and decision making;
- 5
Formulate and design policy questions amenable to empirical inquiry;
- 6
To develop skills and knowledge for translating the theory and concepts of resource and environmental management into practice relevant to communities and workplaces today;
- 7
To apply monitoring and environmental management tools used by resource and environmental practitioners.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Agnes Babugura
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Agnes Babugura
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for AZA3548?
AZA3548 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is AZA3548 offered?
In 2020, AZA3548 runs in Semester 1 at South Africa.
How much work is AZA3548?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.