Development Stream
Coordinator:
Dr Salim Lakha (Arts)
Committee:
Dr Violeta (Vicky) Schubert (Arts)
Dr Simon Batterbury (MSLE)
A/Prof Hector Malano (Engineering)
Dr Darko Radovic (Architecture)
Dr John Petheram (MSLE)
Dr Jon Barnett (Arts)
The stream is designed to meet the needs of professionals working in both developing and industrialised economies to manage natural resources (physical and biological), and rural and urban landscapes, including transport, and urban planning. It provides you with a broad understanding of technological and social solutions to sustainable development strategies, which is relevant to business and government professionals. It is intended to provide a path for people with a first degree in the social, technical and applied sciences (physical science, life science, engineering, agriculture, medicine) to develop skills (technical and non-technical) for implementing sustainable development strategies. It also provides a path for people with policy and management qualifications to extend their studies in this area.
Development stream details
Please consult the Handbook for further information and timetables.
Students are required to complete the core subject:
950-601 Sustainability, Policy and Management
950-600 Trans-disciplinary thinking and learning
and three other compulsory subjects:
121-529 Social Impact Assessment and Evaluation
121-532 Environmental Impact Assessment
121-545 Understanding Development
and select electives to make up the balance of the award. The recommended list of electives includes:
120-512 River Management
121-503 Research Methods and Design
121-508 Project Management and Design
121-509 Field Methods in Development
121-516 Gender Issues in Development
121-523 Internship in Development
121-525 Political Ecology in International Development
121-537 Heritage and Cultural Environments
121-542 Geographic Analysis and GIS
121-544 International Internship
136-506 Pacific History, Environment and Science
166-530 Environmental Policy
166-535 International Politics: Special Topic
207-509 Case Studies in Integrated Catchment Management
207-513 / 207-413 Community Natural Resource Management
316-663 Environmental Economics and Strategy
421-609 Technology in Society
421-616 Technology Assessment
421-619 Energy for Sustainable Development
421-625 Case Studies in Development Technologies
421-627 Sustainable Water Resources Management
421-629 Energy Efficiency Technology
421-681 Management for the Environment
451-610 Fundamentals of GIS
485-855 Perception of the Environment
505-963 Primary Health Care (Field class to Jamkhed, India. Applications required by June)
505-969 Epidemiology & Analytical Methods 1
512-545 Environmental Psychology
705-537/ 705-337 Social planning for Healthy Cities
705-643 Managing Global City Regions
705-644 Planning Urban Sustainability
730-683 Environmental Law
730-854 International Environmental Law
950-603/ 600-604 Environmental Risk Assessment
These subjects are available in the 2008 academic year, unless otherwise stated. Students may take other electives subject to the approval of the stream coordinator.
Students may apply to undertake a research project as part of a course of study. This requires good academic performance and the approval of the stream coordinator.