EV3252 - Indigenous Environmental Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Discipline of Environmental Sciences

This subject explores Indigenous peoples roles in tropical environments in both Australia and across the world. Students obtain an introduction to core issues and concepts through lectures, workshops, seminars and reading material that reflects and accesses Indigenous perspectives on environmental management issues. They will also participate in a field experience with Indigenous environmental management organisations, traditional owners and other Indigenous Australians. Students are subsequently guided towards resources to enable them to synthesise their new understandings and complete the assessment requirements.

Learning Outcomes

• describe the historical, political, scientific and economic contexts of environmental management by Indigenous peoples;
• value debate, thought and knowledge with respect to the diversity of environmental management approaches;
• demonstrate the capacity to communicate in cross- cultural situations;
• discuss issues and debates relevant to achieving co-existence of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples approaches to environmental management, including contested knowledge systems, wilderness and contemporary hunting and resource utilization;
• demonstrate understanding of the interface between non-Indigenous and Indigenous environmental management practices and legal systems, including customary law and native title;
• demonstrate understanding of the roles of Indigenous peoples in tropical environments across the world, and particularly in tropical Australia.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

EV3202 and EV5204 and EV5252 and TG3202 and TG5204

Availabilities
Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Face to face teaching 20-Apr-2009 to 24-Apr-2009 (5 day residential)
Coord/Lect:	Dr Joan Bentrupperbaumer.
Contact hours:	40 hours
Assessment:	examination (50%); assignment, seminar, field report (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.