EV2011 - The Case for Sustainability
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Science and Engineering |
This subject will consider some of the most pressing sustainability challenges facing the world today. Using a range of case studies from Australia and around the world, students will come to understand the complex and interdisciplinary nature of sustainability problems. The case studies will demonstrate the inter-dependency of ecosystem functions and services (e.g. climate, soils, biodiversity) and humanity's interactions (and impacts) with these. Case studies, involving different approaches supporting sustainability, will be drawn from a variety of contexts, including: policy development; technology; manufacturing; energy; community; resource management; conservation; sustainable consumption; biodiversity management; urban development and living. The practical/tutorial sessions will provide students with additional insights to these and introduce some of the techniques utilised by sustainability practitioners involved in sustainable development initiatives e.g. working with complex systems; sustainability indicator development and data identification, management and interpretation; multi-criteria analysis/decision-making; education and training for sustainability; 'triple-bottom-line' (ecological, social, economic) accounting and reporting.
Learning Outcomes
- critically appraise the role and relevance of sustainability and sustainable development in local, regional and global society;
- demonstrate a broad understanding of problem-oriented sustainability approaches, including stakeholder analysis, values clarification, interdisciplinary collaboration, and systems and futures thinking;
- retrieve, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information from a range of sources;
- plan and conduct reliable, evidence-based desktop and fieldwork sustainability investigations, by selecting and applying methods, techniques and tools as appropriate to one or more disciplines;
- organise, analyse and interpret sustainability data using mathematical, statistical, technological and/or interpretivist skills;
- convey ideas, arguments and conclusions clearly and coherently through well-developed written and oral communication skills and a variety of media.
| Prerequisites: | 12 CREDITS AT LEVEL 1 INCLUDING EV1011 OR EV1005 |
Availabilities | |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 24-Aug-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Colin MacGregor |
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| Assessment: | quizzes or tests (10%); presentations (10%); assignments (30%); end of semester report (25%); practicals, tutorials & field exercises (10%); mcdm report (15%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 06-Apr-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Colin MacGregor |
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| Assessment: | creative work (10%); assignments (15%); end of semester report (25%); field trip report (20%); practicals, tutorials & field exercises (30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 07-Dec-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Colin MacGregor |
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| Assessment: | creative work (10%); assignments (15%); end of semester report (25%); field trip report (20%); practicals, tutorials & field exercises (30%). |
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