121-435 Environmental Management Systems

At least 50 points of second year subjects approved for environmental science or equivalent. Familiarity with quantitative methods (mathematics or modelling or statistics) is recommended.

This subject identifies the tasks involved in managing environmental projects; determines appropriate methods for accomplishing those tasks; and indicates how to conduct those methods. Students should become familiar with the principles of project management/ project design including critical path analysis; decision-making processes and decision support systems; project control; risk management; and scheduling. Students should also become familiar with cost-benefit analysis including issues of welfare, externalities, options and discounts; pricing environmental goods; social impacts; opportunity costs; assessing costs and benefits. Finally students will explore the question of environmental standards including issues such as the role of standards; Australian and international standards; transparency and accountability; auditing compliance.

A 1-hour examination, and 12 practical exercises totalling 4000 words for 3rd year, 5000 words for 4th year. The outside class component, which will be partially completed in class, will be equivalent to 3000 words.