Managing Environments

Overview

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: Dr Simon Pooley
• Assessment: a 1500-word report (50%) and 2000-word essay (50%)

Module description

In this module you will discover key themes in environmental management, outlining some major issues and then exploring management responses to these critically. Assuming some very basic knowledge of environmental science and management issues, we will develop your understanding of management responses in more depth. You will become familiar with key management challenges related to:

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• articulate and critically evaluate key management responses to the planet's major environmental challenges
• explain adaptive management and appreciate the range of skills and approaches required to tackle major social-ecological environmental challenges like bioinvasions and wildfires
• work effectively with environmental information and data
• explain how carbon accounting works in an organisational context 
• be familiar with major debates over and approaches to achieving sustainable development
• apply concepts of risk, hazard, mitigation and adaptations to tackling environmental management issues.