Courses Handbook 2010

13090 (v.5) Aquatic Environmental Management 201


Area: Department of Environmental and Aquatic Sciences
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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Principles of aquatic environmental and resource management; legislative framework and policies; environmental stressors, pollutants contamination and eutrophication; ecosystem responses to environmental stressors, field monitoring, environmental management systems, and ecological risk assessment; Australian and international standards of environmental management; principles of fisheries management; tools utilised in aquatic environmental management: introduction to ecotoxicology and ecosystem modelling;and case studies demonstrating environmental management practices.
** 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: 019900 Other Natural and Physical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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