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EV5251:03
Environmental Impacts of Human Activities in Protected Areas
[Offered in odd-numbered years]
26 hours lectures, 13 hours seminars, 26 hours workshops, 16 hours field work. July block mode.
Core unit for: Biodiversity studies, Protected Area Management Elective unit for: Conservation Biology, Tropical Ecology, Tropical Environmental Management, Geographical Land Information Systems, Protected Area Management and Tropical Urban and Regional Planning.
Assoc. Professor S Turton.
This subject examines the applicability and techniques derived from ecological and earth sciences which are of particular value in protected area management; environmental and human-induced impacts in protected areas; factors affecting human impacts in protected areas; management strategies and concepts; research design for measuring and monitoring human impacts in protected areas; visitor and site management; applications in terrestrial and marine ecosystems (especially tropical rainforest); biological and physical environment field survey; data analysis and interpretation techniques; reviews of previous work undertaken in northern Australian protected areas. The main emphasis is on terrestrial ecosystems (especially tropical environments) but marine and ocean island systems are also included.