950-300 Environmental Management Systems

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

At least 50 points of 200-level subjects approved for environmental science. Familiarity with quantitative methods (mathematics or modelling or statistics) is recommended.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject identifies the tasks involved in managing environmental projects; determines appropriate methods for accomplishing those tasks; and indicates how to conduct those methods. It covers the following issues. First, the principles of project management - project design; critical path analysis; decision making processes and decision support systems; project control; risk management; and scheduling. Second, cost-benefit analysis: welfare, externalities, options and discounts; pricing environmental goods; social impacts; opportunity costs; assessing costs and benefits. And third: environmental standards: the role of standards; Australian and international standards; transparency and accountability; auditing compliance.

Assessment

12 practical exercises; a 1-hour end-of-semester examination. The practical exercises will be partially completed in class; the outside-class component will be equivalent to 350 words per exercise.