Course Summary
This course introduces key theories and concepts that will help you to interpret and engage with current issues and debates about natural resource management, particularly focussing on impacts from natural hazards. You will explore how certain social constructs, such as property rights, valuing natural capital, risk and uncertainty, affect natural resource management. You will also examine basic ecological and physical principles that are critical to understanding current natural resource issues and their relationships with natural hazards-both within Australia and around the world.
These social and ecological/physical knowledges will be applied to investigate how different natural resources (e.g. water, organisms, minerals) are both formally and informally managed in association with natural hazard events (including through data manipulation, policy and legislation) and how land use policy and practices engage with risk and hazard.