Environmental Management and Development

The Master of Environmental Management and Development will boost your career in natural resource management and environmental policy, and improve your professional ability to respond to the complex challenges of sustainable development.

Offered by the internationally-renowned Crawford School, the program will equip you with the theoretical understanding and practical skills you need to contribute to the goals of economic viability, social acceptability and environmental sustainability in different social and political contexts.

Focus areas include biodiversity conservation, climate change, social impacts, environmental governance, and management of primary resources such as water, fisheries, forests, and minerals

Career Options

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

1. identify and critically analyse complex environmental and development problems and the key issues that comprise them;
2. demonstrate theoretical knowledge, research and practical professional skills, together with an appreciation of how they inform and shape debate, and an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses;
3. understand, synthesise and explain contemporary environment and development policy issues from alternative disciplinary and social perspectives, and an appreciation of context;
4. articulate ideas clearly and communicate these persuasively in a range of formats to diverse audiences;
5. contribute to social, economic and environmental wellbeing.

Cognate disciplines

Anthropology, Economics, Development Studies, Biodiversity Conservation, Geography, Human Ecology, Policy Studies, Population Studies, Resource Management and Environmental Science, Sociology, Sustainability Science, Sustainable Development.

 

The Master of Environmental Management and Development requires the completion of 96 units, which must consist of:

Completion of the following pre-sessional component:

CRWF6900 Graduate Academic and Research Skills for Public Policy

EMDV6900 Graduate Preparatory Environmental Science

EMDV6903 Graduate Preparatory Environmental Economics

 

48 units from completion of the following initial component:

24 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

EMDV8007 Environmental Policy and Communications

EMDV8013 Issues in Development and Environment

EMDV8078 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics

EMDV8101 State, Society and Natural Resources

 

A minimum of 12 units from completion of environment and development courses from the following list:

ANTH8014 Mining Projects and Indigenous Peoples

ANTH8106 Gender, Nature and Development

ANTH8107 The World Bank and the Organisation of Development

EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development

EMDV8009 Asia Pacific Environmental Conflicts: Causes and Solutions

EMDV8026 Introduction to Environmental Science

EMDV8108 Applied Environmental and Resource Management

HGEO8001 Assessing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

 

A maximum of 12 units from completion of environment or development courses from the following list:

ANTH6009 Culture and Development

ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs

BUSN7017 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting

ENVS6005 Sustainable Systems: Urban

ENVS6010 Australia's Forests

ENVS6012 Sustainable Systems: Rural

ENVS6013 Society and Environmental Change

ENVS6014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability

ENVS6015 GIS and Spatial Analysis

ENVS6020 Human Ecology

ENVS6021 Participatory Resource Management: Working with Communities and Stakeholders

ENVS6022 Hydrology and Landforms for Natural Resource Management

ENVS6024 Biodiversity Conservation

ENVS6025 Complex Environmental Problems in Action

ENVS6026 Managing Forested Landscapes

ENVS6033 International Environmental Policy

ENVS6101 Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability

ENVS6104 Australia's Environment

ENVS6108 Sustainable Development

ENVS6203 Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology

ENVS6204 Weather, Climate and Fire

ENVS6205 Island Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School

ENVS6301 Climate Change Science & Policy in Practice

ENVS6302 Sustainable Agricultural Practices

ENVS6303 Climatology

ENVS6304 Land and Catchment Management

ENVS6306 Human Futures

ENVS6307 Climate Change Science & Policy

ENVS6308 Fire in the Environment

ENVS6514 Ecological Assessment and Management

ENVS6528 Environmental Policy

ENVS6555 Water Resource Management

LAWS6503 Law and the Environment

SOCY6045 Third World Development

 

48 units from completion of the following concluding component:

6 units from completion of EMDV8102 Research Methods for Environmental Management

 

6 units from completion of an economic analysis course from the following list:

EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-Making

EMDV8012 Ecological Economics and Policy

 

6 units from completion of an impact assessment course from the following list:

ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies

EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment

 

6 units from completion of a political economy course from the following list:

CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change

EMDV8104 Environmental Governance

 

Either:

A minimum of 12 units from completion of environment and development courses from the following list:

ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies

ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development

ANTH8047 Introduction to Indigenous Environments

ANTH8060 Exploring Gender, Resources and the Environment

CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change

CRWF8003 International Water Politics

CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy

CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy and Economics

CRWF8011 The Global Trading System

CRWF8014 Domestic climate change policy and economics

CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy

CRWF8017 Energy Economics

EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-Making

EMDV8008 Research Proposal

EMDV8012 Ecological Economics and Policy

EMDV8041 Special Topics in Environmental Management and Development

EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment

EMDV8104 Environmental Governance

HGEO8002 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

HGEO8003 Research in Natural Hazards and Disasters

 

A maximum of 12 units from completion of environment or development courses from the following list:

ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development

ANTH8009 Development in Practice

ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis

ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy

ANTH8032 Law, Order and Conflict in the Pacific

ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development

ANTH8046 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Development

ANTH8056 Introduction to Humanitarian Action

DEMO8088 Population, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

ENVS8003 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation

ENVS8005 Climate Change Science: Carbon Accounting

ENVS8006 Measuring Forest Carbon

ENVS8015 Contemporary Perspectives in Environmental Science

ENVS8016 Contemporary Perspectives in Environment-Society Interaction

ENVS8048 Topics in Environment & Society

IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy

IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy

IDEC8022 Economic Development

IDEC8053 Environmental Economics

IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost/Benefit Analysis

LAWS8123 Water Resources Law

LAWS8180 International Climate Law

LAWS8189 Fundamentals of Environmental Law

POGO8004 Poverty Reduction

POGO8032 Comparative Public Sector Management

POGO8044 Global Social Policy

POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption

POGO8083 Policy Advocacy

POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice

Or:

18 units from completion of the following courses:

EMDV8008 Research Proposal

EMDV8066 Research Project

6 units from completion of an environment and/or development course from the following list:

ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development

ANTH8009 Development in Practice

ANTH8019 Practical Studies in Social Analysis

ANTH8028 Introduction to Social Impact Studies

ANTH8029 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy

ANTH8032 Law, Order and Conflict in the Pacific

ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development

ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development

ANTH8046 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Development

ANTH8047 Introduction to Indigenous Environments

ANTH8056 Introduction to Humanitarian Action

ANTH8060 Exploring Gender, Resources and the Environment

CRWF8000 Government, Markets and Global Change

CRWF8003 International Water Politics

CRWF8004 Case Studies in Economic Policy

CRWF8006 International Climate Change Policy and Economics

CRWF8011 The Global Trading System

CRWF8014 Domestic climate change policy and economics

CRWF8016 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy

CRWF8017 Energy Economics

DEMO8088 Population, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

EMDV8002 Methods for Environmental Decision-Making

EMDV8012 Ecological Economics and Policy

EMDV8041 Special Topics in Environmental Management and Development

EMDV8103 Environmental Assessment

EMDV8104 Environmental Governance

ENVS8003 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation

ENVS8005 Climate Change Science: Carbon Accounting

ENVS8006 Measuring Forest Carbon

ENVS8015 Contemporary Perspectives in Environmental Science

ENVS8016 Contemporary Perspectives in Environment-Society Interaction

ENVS8048 Topics in Environment & Society

HGEO8002 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

HGEO8003 Research in Natural Hazards and Disasters

IDEC8007 Aid and Development Policy

IDEC8018 Agricultural Economics and Resource Policy

IDEC8022 Economic Development

IDEC8053 Environmental Economics

IDEC8088 Applied Economics: Cost/Benefit Analysis

LAWS8123 Water Resources Law

LAWS8180 International Climate Law

LAWS8189 Fundamentals of Environmental Law

POGO8004 Poverty Reduction

POGO8032 Comparative Public Sector Management

POGO8044 Global Social Policy

POGO8076 Corruption and Anti-corruption

POGO8083 Policy Advocacy

POGO8095 Development Policy and Practice

Students must complete the pre-sessional component to continue to the initial component.

Students must achieve a minimum 65% weighted average mark in the initial component to continue to the concluding component.

Students who do not achieve a minimum 65% weighted average mark in the initial component will be transferred to the Graduate Diploma of Public Policy.

 

A Bachelor degree or international equivalent.

All applicants must meet the University's English Language Admission Requirements for Students.

Applicants with a Bachelor degree in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 24 units of credit.

Applicants with a Graduate Diploma or Honours in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 48 units of credit.

Credit may also be available for relevant work experience.

Students must complete the pre-sessional component to continue to the initial component.

Students must achieve a minimum 65% weighted average mark in the initial component to continue to the concluding component.

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