Courses Handbook 2010

302802 (v.2) Sustainable Development in Civil Engineering 461


Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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
Prerequisite(s): 302795 (v.1) Water Engineering 362 or any previous version
OR
308883 (v.1) Water and Environmental Engineering 362 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to sustainable development. Introduction to medium related environmental problems. Material and energy flow in the environment and processes. Ecosystems, ecology and environmental impact assessment. Social aspects of environment and environmental ethics. Past policies and consequences on technological innovations and challenges they posed, and concept of sustainability. Tools applied in achieving sustainability and case studies in civil engineering. Technical tools. Environmental impact assessment. Cleaner production. Life cycle assessment. Industrial ecology. Social impact assessment. Cumulative impact assessment. Non-technical tools: regulatory, economic, and policy tools.
** 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
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 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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