Integrated Water Catchment Management

With global climate change and more extreme weather conditions, water catchments have never been under more pressure, and professionals with skills in their management are in high demand.

Catchment management involves the integration of sound biophysical information with social and economic analysis. This is used to achieve the best outcomes for a catchment's natural resources and the people who live and work there.

Studying with us, you'll look into the functioning of catchments and the constraints to improving catchment management; particularly, how these constraints can be eased.

Integrated Catchment Management is appropriate for professionals working in soil and water regulation, land management, and conservation in the private and public sectors.

We're looking for students with a first degree in physical science, life science, social science, engineering, forestry, horticulture or agriculture. Professional geologists, natural resource scientists and managers who wish to gain advanced knowledge of catchment management strategies in urban and rural environments would also benefit from studies in this field.

You can expect to find employment in regulatory agencies, local and state government authorities, environmental consulting companies, and industries concerned with land development, recreation and tourism.

Students who complete the Master of Environment will have:

• An advanced understanding of the ideas concerning environmental issues
• Advanced skills and techniques applicable to changing and managing the environment
• An ability to evaluate and synthesise research and professional literature in the chosen stream or focus of study
• An advanced understanding of the international context and sensitivities of environmental assessment

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Elective Subjects