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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

308359 (v.3) Sustainability Management 601 (Public Policy)

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Tutition Patterns

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.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 2 x 3 Hours Quarterly
Syllabus: An examination of the contributions governments can make towards sustainable development. Investigation of the origins of sustainable development in the international debate on environment and development as well as their translation into multilateral environmental, social agreements and implementation through national strategies. Further analysis focuses on whether and how the market can contribute to sustainable development which sets the stage for investigating appropriate social, environment, economic and other policies that create market framework conditions that are favourable to sustainable development. Best practice tools and methodologies for national sustainable development strategies are presented as well as local and regional approaches including Local Agenda 21. Students attend a three hour lecture once every three weeks.
Field of Education: 090103 Policy Studies
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
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Bentley 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