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REN3302 Sustainable Resource Use

 

 

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Welcome to REN3302 Sustainable Resource Use. This course is offered in both on-campus (ONC) at Toowoomba and Springfield campuses and in external (EXT) mode in Semester 2, by the Faculty of Sciences and is designed as a non-major, inter-faculty course on sustainability and the environment in an Australian context. 

The following materials are designed to be supplementary to information provided to enrolled students on the official course webpage on StudyDesk accessed through UConnect (see link below). Students enrolled in the course should consult the StudyDesk.

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About the Course   |   Staff/Contacts   |   Topics   |   Assessment 

Dr Andy Le Brocque
(REN3302 Examiner)


 

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About the Course

 

Semester:

Mode:

Credit Points:

Faculty:

Pre-requisites:

Examiner:

2

ONC (TWMBA, SPRFLD)  & EXT

 1.00

Sciences

Nil

Dr Andy Le Brocque

 

Synopsis:

Present and future Australian decision-makers require an understanding of the principles of sustainable development. Students in all programs will benefit from an appreciation of the environmental impact of current land and resource uses. As options for sustainable land and resource uses become more constrained, the need for integrated catchment and regional resource planning, becomes more urgent and more crucial to Australia's future.

The course is based on an explanation of ecological principles as a basis for managing Australia's land and water resources sustainability. The effects of economic growth and traditional management approaches on land use for agriculture, mining, forestry, protected areas, water catchments and urban expansion are analysed and explained. Environmental impacts are studied and compared economically, ecologically and socially. Current approaches to land and resource use planning and resource use are evaluated in terms of their contribution to a sustainable Australian society. REN3302 Sustainable Resource Use is an inter-disciplinary inter-faculty course taught by the Department of Biological & Physical Sciences (Faculty of Sciences). It is a general course for both science and non-science undergraduate majors. The course has been designed to provide an in-depth evaluation of humankind's interaction with the environment at the regional Australian scale. The material is presented in four distinct, but closely inter-related modules over the semester (see table below).

Further information can be obtained in the official Course Specifications for this course available through UConnect. The official REN3302 Course Specifications should be checked in all instances.


 

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Staff/Contacts

 

Dr Andy Le Brocque (Course Examiner & Team Leader)

 

Senior Lecturer (Ecology & Sustainability) – Toowoomba Campus

Department of Biological & Physical Sciences, Faculty of Sciences; Phone: (07) 4631 1529 | Email: lebrocq@usq.edu.au

External Materials: Editor. Primary author Modules 1 – 2, 8 – 9, & 12. Major contributor to other modules.
Lectures & Tutorials: Modules 1 – 2, 8 – 9, & 12 (Toowoomba)

Assoc. Prof. Joachim Ribbe (Course Moderator)

 

Associate Professor (Climatology) & Head, Department of Biological & Physical Sciences  – Toowoomba Campus

Department of Biological & Physical Sciences, Faculty of Sciences; Phone: (07) 4631 1529 | Email: lebrocq@usq.edu.au

 

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Dr Bernadette McCabe

Senior Lecturer (Microbiology) – Toowoomba

Faculty of Sciences. Phone: (07) 4631 1623 | Email: Bernadette.McCabe@usq.edu.au

External Materials:
Lectures & Tutorials: Modules 5 –10 (Toowoomba)

Dr Kate Reardon-Smith

Casual Lecturer (Environment & Sustainability) – Toowoomba & Springfield Campuses

Faculty of Sciences / Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments. Phone: (07) 4631 5579 | Email: Kathryn.Reardon-Smith@usq.edu.au

External Materials:
Lectures & Tutorials: Modules 2 – 12 (Springfield)


 

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Topics

 

Module

Topic

1

The Australian Environment

2

The Australian Biota

3

Human Impacts & Early Land Use

4

Recent Human Impacts

5

Forestry & Fisheries

6

Agriculture & Pastoralism

7

Mining

8

Energy

9

Water Resources

10

The Urban Environment

11

Communities & Sustainability

12

Integrating Sustainability


 

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Assessment*

 

Item

Name

Weighting

1

Online Quizzes (x 2)

20%

2

Assignment 1 (Case Study Proposal)

5%

3

Assignment 2 (Case Study eSeminar)

30%

4

2 Hour Final Examination

45%

 

*Assessment details From 2013; current students should consult the Course Studydesk


 

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