2009 Course Handbook
GEOS321: Resource Management
This unit challenges students seeking careers in resource management to examine the social, political, economic and cultural consequences of resource management decisions. Using local, international and global case studies, many drawing on the experiences of indigenous peoples, this unit offers students new ways of seeing resource management systems, new ways of thinking about the geopolitics of resources and a range of practical skills and applied examples. It requires students to engage ethical and practical questions and deals with Social Impact Assessment, institutional decision-making and social theory relevant to resource management. Students have opportunities in this unit to pursue, in-depth, specific interests in particular resource conflicts.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 4 |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: 28 March; 2 May; 23 May) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Donna Houston |
| Prerequisites: | GEOS265(P) or GEOS267(P) |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | GEOS303, GEOS310 |
| Unit Designations: |
Social Science
Commerce; Economics Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Environment and Geography |
Timetable Information
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