Courses Handbook 2009

306907 (v.2) Management of Arid Environments 432


Area: WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Geomorphology and landscapes in the arid zone. Climate, water movement, erosion and landscape degradation. Vegetation distribution at local and loand system scales; mapping arid zone natural resources. Ecosystem dynamics and processes of change. Arid land use, policy and legislative environment, pastoral and mining. Principles of sustainable land use; land rehabilitation. Monitoring principles and methods. Site visits.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 039901 Environmental Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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