208-501 Sustainable Landscapes
This subject will consider the wider landscape issues associated with rural and urban land use and land use change, clearing, fragmentation and modification of native vegetation, and the influences of these on biodiversity, and ecosystem services and processes; utilisation, degradation and management of rural and urban biophysical resources, especially in regard to the soil and water; climate change and sustainable rural futures; population - the regional, the service town, the rural, urban fringe; agriculture - agro-ecology, trends in modern agricultural production, and the sustainability of production, food sovereignty, post-production landscapes; |
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industrialisation - intensification and pollution; the commons - public and private good; environmental security and institutions; governance - deliberative democracy, empowerment; environmental economics. Students will analyse the meaning of landscape through landscape sciences (ecology, resource management, extension, etc) and policy frameworks. This subject uses a combination of Australian and overseas case studies to provide a framework for student analysis. At the completion of this subject, students should be able to discuss the implications in landscape changes for urban and rural or regional populations; be able to map agro-ecological and social community interrelations; be familiar with policy and planning tools that influence biodiversity, community and ecological resilience and governance; be familiar with methodologies and methods to analyse and process issues of uncertainty and risk in landscape decision making and landscape management practice. For full subject description go to handbook entry for 208-501 Sustainable Landscapes This subject is taught by Assoc Professor Ruth Beilin |
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