Landscape Governance and Policy (ENST90046)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
Contact information
Semester 2
Professor Rodney Keenan
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
We live in a world of limited natural resources and decision making about the allocation of land and resources is no longer just the realm of nation-states and governments. Landscape governance involves governments, civil society groups and private sector actors. This subject provides students with an understanding of the policies, tools, organizations, institutions and actors involved in the governance of landscapes and natural resources and exposes students to a range of resource management regimes and modes of production and conservation, including partnership models, common property regimes, market and non-market arrangements for resource management, smallholder-based systems and decentralization. This subject provides a capstone experience based on exercises and case studies of landscapes such as the Murray Darling Basin in Australia and the Mekong River catchment in SE Asia and rural industries such as forestry, agriculture and tourism. These are used to explore the challenges of governance and decision making with multiple land tenures and stakeholders and governance of cross-cutting issues such as climate adaptation, fire, flood and biosecurity. The business of landscape management is explored through analysis of corporate decision-making principles and practices and prioritisation and resource allocation in government and non-government organisations. The subject adopts an active, interdisciplinary and participatory approach to learning including lectures, industry and government presentations, class debates and role plays and a major group project. A 3-day field trip to north-eastern Victoria will reinforce learnings through field exercises and discussions with land management agencies, industry, NGOs and stakeholders.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Explain the history of governing natural systems and recognise the governance structures and policy arrangements for different types of ecosystems and landscapes;
- Compare different governance and policy arrangements to integrate ecosystem and landscape management objectives such as soil health, carbon sequestration, bushfire or biosecurity risk, water quality and yield, forest and landscape biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, or wood, fibre and food production;
- Design integrated, ethical and evidence-based governance policy processes that draw on community and stakeholder engagement and make recommendations for the management of conflicts of values or interests and issues related to different forms of knowledge and power relations;
- Make argued cases for decisions regarding the allocation of people and finance to social ecological management activities and explain the consequences that flow from those decisions;
- Evaluate the financial performance of public and private sector ecosystem management organisations.
Generic skills
Upon completion of this subject, students should have developed a proficiency in:
- Research skills;
- Analysis skills;
- Presentation skills;
- Teamwork.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENST90043 | Sustainable Landscapes | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
A written ministerial brief on a landscape governance issue (500 words)
| Week 4 | 10% |
Case study group exercise due first week of examination period.
| During the examination period | 40% |
10-minute presentation on case study
| Week 11 | 10% |
Fortnightly quizzes (weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 equivalent to 1000 words) (20%)
| Throughout the semester | 20% |
Short essay on a set topic in environmental economics, governance or policy (1000 words)
| Week 8 | 20% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Rodney Keenan Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 1 x 2 hour lecture weekly (weeks 1 - 12), 1 x 1 hour lecture weekly (weeks 1 - 12), 1 x 1 hour tutorial (weeks 1 - 12) and a 3 day field trip in week 7. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Professor Rodney Keenan
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 31 January 2024