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This Unit is archived with an end date of 05/12/2024

Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2024-2024

MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

MURDOCH-S2-INT-2024-2024

MURDOCH-S2-ONLINESCHD-2025-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in C1118 Graduate Certificate in Environmental Assessment and Management or G1053 Graduate Diploma in Environmental Science or G1062 Graduate Diploma in Energy and the Environment or G1078 Graduate Diploma in Safety Science or M1210 Master of Environmental Science or M1268 Master of Renewable and Sustainable Energy or M1195 Master of Development Studies or M1214 Master of Sustainable Development or M1267 Master of Health Administration, Policy and Leadership or M1266 Master of International Affairs and Security or M1194 Master of Public Policy and Management or M1330 Master of Engineering Practice or M1248 Master of Biosecurity or M1311 Master of Food Security or M1122 Master of Veterinary Studies in Conservation Medicine or M1232 Master of Wildlife Health and Conservation.

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Define social-ecological systems and describe their role in achieving sustainability.

2.

Critically analyse and compare diverse frameworks of social-ecological systems and their empirical applicability.

3.

Apply models and tools for analyzing complex problems of social-ecological systems.

4.

Formulate possible strategies of sustainable environmental management by referencing essential concepts and theories of social-ecological systems.

5.

Implement governance mechanisms and institutional analysis for managing the commons.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

The unit consists of five modules covering the definition and role of social-ecological systems, diverse frameworks, and approaches for analysing human-nature interactions, essential concepts, and theories such as resilience, the adaptive cycle, thresholds, tipping point, regime shift, institutional analysis and collective actions for managing the common pool resources.