Units (subjects): Notes and Online Materials

World prehistory
Explores how archaeologists and related scientists have developed an understanding of the long-term evolution of human cultural diversity. Students will gain an appreciation of how archaeologists have documented the spread of humans across the globe over the last 2 million years. Numerous case studies will reveal how archaeologists use physical evidence from the earth to understand the evolution of past cultures.

Sem 2 2009

The science of climate
Climate change is an area of modern science with a very high public profile and important implications for people, society and environment. This unit examines natural climate variability, human-induced climate change, and the controversies surrounding our effect on climate.

Sem 2 2009

Australian physical environments: Evolution, status and management
The core GES1020 unit seeks to explain present Australian landscapes, biota and climate through an understanding of past environments and events. This is an historical or evolutionary approach.

Sem 2 2009

The global challenge
This unit provides an introduction to the human geography of globalization. It examines the economic, social, and political forces that contribute to global change, shape the new international division of labour, patterns of global migration and industrial reorganisation

Sem 2 2009

Natural hazards and human vulnerability
This unit analyses the wide range of environmental processes (hazards) that pose risks to human lives, livelihoods and settlements. These hazards include earthquakes, tsunami, extreme storms, and forest fires.

Sem 1 2009

Archaeology of indigenous Australia
The subject critically examines the range of techniques and theoretical frameworks used by archaeologists to understand Australia's 50,000-year plus Indigenous history. The focus will be archaeological sites and debates associated with the interpretation of excavated cultural materials.

Next offered Sem 2 2010

Archaeological theories
The overarching aims are to provide students with a broad understanding of contemporary archaeology in terms of explanatory theoretical frameworks and controversial work practices.

Sem 2 2009

Archaeological field and laboratory methods
The subject provides students with a through grounding in archaeological field and laboratory techniques. Field techniques include critical analysis of different approaches by archaeologists to find, record and excavate sites. Only available as an intensive, part campus, part field based unit over 4 weeks in Jan/Feb 2010.

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Summer Semester 2010

Soils, land use and the environment
Introduction to soils and their management. Topics include soil constituents and characteristics; Australian soil types and their formation; soil description, classification and mapping; physical causes of land degradation; and soil management issues. Practical and field work should enable students to describe and classify soils in the field, and identify the nature and causes of land degradation.

Sem 1 2009

Coastal geomorphology and management
Coastal changes since the end of the last glacial stage have been great, and much interest centres on the nature of environmental (in)stability and the relative role of catastrophic events, natural changes/fluctuations, and of economic development, in determining the pattern of geographical variation in coastal landform evolution.

Summer Semester 2008/09 Flexible delivery

Biogeography: The status of Australian biota
A study of natural and man-modified vegetation. Factors and processes which have contributed towards the origins, nature and distribution of Australian vegetation types. Particular problems of land use and conservation. The practical side of the subject provides familiarity with Australian vegetation and its analysis.

Sem 2 2009

Climatology: Surface-atmosphere processes and interactions
The earth's surface directly influences our climate and weather. This unit explores climates found near the ground in terms of the exchanges of water, energy and mass. We examine how atmospheric processes interact with the physical properties of different surfaces to produce distinctive climates, including natural and human-modified environments. Natural environments of increasing complexity are considered (from simple desert and water bodies, to vegetated surfaces and non-uniform terrain). Relevant examples are drawn from ongoing research particularly in Australia. Emphasis is placed on gaining practical skills through laboratory exercises and a weekend field trip.

Sem 1 2009

Environmental hydrology
Movement of water in environment, and roles played by water in environmental processes, discussing behaviour of water from condensation in lower atmosphere through to groundwater and river flow. The role of vegetation in intercepting and redirecting water at surface. The processes of infiltration, percolation, groundwater flow, stormflow and baseflow production.

Next offered Sem 2 2010

Tourism and the environment
This unit critically examines the sustainability of tourism in social, environmental and economic terms and evaluates ecotourism in Australian, cross-cultural and global contexts using both local and international case studies. It explores the role of ecotourism in promoting an environmental ethic that forms the foundation for a sustainable future

Sem 2 2008

Cities and sustainability
This unit will identify, describe and interpret the concept of sustainability expressed with respect to cities primarily in developed nations. The unit will analyse the economic and physical dimensions of sustainability and concentrate upon issues such as transport, energy, waste disposal, water use, along with social and political aspects including dimensions like equity, social polarisation, community development and institutional capacity.

Sem 1 2009

Environmental policy and management
Through this subject you will be introduced to the key concepts and procedures that underpin contemporary environmental policy and management, as well as examples of policy and management in practice.

Sem 1 2009

Power and poverty: Geographies of the Third World
This unit examines selected aspects of the nature and impact of poverty and development in the contemporary world. Major areas of concern include: patterns and impacts of geographically-uneven development; access to land and natural resources and redistributive justice...

Sem 2 2009

Place and the politics of identity
Students will learn current geographical understandings of culture as a process made up of everyday beliefs, languages and practices though which people come to understand their world. It will show cultural processes do not just happen in, but create spaces, places, landscapes, regions and environments.

Next offered Sem 1 2010

Climate change and variability
A multidisciplinary approach to the nature, causes and future implications of climatic change and variability. This is a team taught unit. Emphasis is placed on processes such as rapid climate change, greenhouse warming, carbon cycle, monsoon activity and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon which are of greatest global concern

Sem 2 2009

Fundamentals of geographical information science
The earth's surface directly influences our climate and weather. This unit explores climates found near the ground in terms of the exchanges of water, energy and mass. We examine how atmospheric processes interact with the physical properties of different surfaces to produce distinctive climates, including natural and human-modified environments. Natural environments of increasing complexity are considered (from simple desert and water bodies, to vegetated surfaces and non-uniform terrain). Relevant examples are drawn from ongoing research particularly in Australia. Emphasis is placed on gaining practical skills through laboratory exercises and a weekend field trip.

Sem 1 2009

International development in a globalising world
This unit provides students with the ability to critically examine geographical polarities of wealth, opportunity and risk for different groups of people in a globalising world. It focuses on differential resource allocation, demographic factors, agrarian systems and health outcomes. Answers to the following questions will be sought: 1) What are key disparities that pose serious concerns for a secure global community? 2) How have international development differences come about? 3) What competing explanations exist for global disparities? 4) What institutional and other structures exacerbate and reinforce uneven international development? 5) How might patterns of global inequality be transformed?

Next offered Sem 1 2010

Archaeology of indigenous Australia
The subject critically examines the range of techniques and theoretical frameworks used by archaeologists to understand Australia's 50,000-year plus Indigenous history. The focus will be archaeological sites and debates associated with the interpretation of excavated cultural materials.

Next offered Sem 2 2010

Archaeological theories
The overarching aims are to provide students with a broad understanding of contemporary archaeology in terms of explanatory theoretical frameworks and controversial work practices.

Sem 2 2009

Archaeological field and laboratory methods
only available as an intensive, part campus, part field based unit over 4 weeks in Jan/Feb 2010.

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Summer Semester 2010

Environmental hydrology
Movement of water in environment, and roles played by water in environmental processes, discussing behaviour of water from condensation in lower atmosphere through to groundwater and river flow. The role of vegetation in intercepting and redirecting water at surface. The processes of infiltration, percolation, groundwater flow, stormflow and baseflow production.

Next offered Sem 2 2010

Geomorphology research project
This unit introduces the processes involved in designing a field research project, from the formulation of a research problem to the design of a research plan, fieldwork processes and the method of preparing a scientific research paper, of a length and standard suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed international journal.

Sem 2 2009

Tourism and the environment
This unit critically examines the sustainability of tourism in social, environmental and economic terms and evaluates ecotourism in Australian, cross-cultural and global contexts using both local and international case studies. It explores the role of ecotourism in promoting an environmental ethic that forms the foundation for a sustainable future.

Sem 2 2008

Environmental assessment and decision making
This unit deals with the processes by which the potential environmental consequences of development proposals are evaluated. These can be highly contentious because of the conflicting interests, types of knowledge and values of different stakeholders.

Sem 1 2009

Cultural landscape, environment and sustainability in Italy
(Nigel Tapper, Sharron Pfueller) (only available as a 10-day field-based unit in the Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy, December 2009 - subject to quota)

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Summer Semester 2009/10

Field studies in regional sustainability
This unit explores the concepts of regional development and sustainability, and draws attention to the practical constraints and issues associated with translating such concepts into regional policy and practice. Field-study takes place in South Africa and includes focus on topics such as: effects of commercial agriculture on soil and water quality....

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Summer Semester 2008/9

Cities and sustainability
This unit will identify, describe and interpret the concept of sustainability expressed with respect to cities primarily in developed nations. The unit will analyse the economic and physical dimensions of sustainability and concentrate upon issues such as transport, energy, waste disposal, water use, along with social and political aspects including dimensions like equity, social polarisation, community development and institutional capacity.

Sem 1 2009

Resource evaluation and management
National and international conflicts over the use of natural resources, eg. rainforest destruction, land degradation, pressure on water supplies and common property resources such as the world's oceans. Socio-political-legal aspects of these disputes and differing attitudes to the environment of various interests groups. Market-based 'solutions' to environmental problems.

Sem 2 2009

Soils, landscape and their management
Relationships of soil development to landscape processes, and Australian soil management in the context of past, present and future environmental change. Students are presented with a number of soil development problems and management issues, and explore alternative land uses and sustainable land management for Australian environments.

Sem 2 2009

Applied environmental climatology
Applied climatology addresses the role climate plays in the provision of food, shelter, energy and a healthy environment.

Sem 2 2009

Researching human environment
This unit is directed at providing students with experience in applied research. Students will be introduced to the characteristics of information and instruction in the appropriate presentation of information and data. The nature of Geographical Information Systems is explained and examples of their use in research will be presented.

Sem 1 2009

Urbanisation and regional development in the Indo-Pacific rims
This unit engages in a comparative analysis of the geographical and economic dimensions of spatial and social change in the countries and regions of the Indo-Pacific Ocean rims. Themes include: state policies of economic growth, urbanisation and industrialisation, regional disparities in industrial growth, gender dimensions of industrialisation, politics of ethnicity; environmental outcomes of industrialisation, and urban governance.

Sem 2 2009

Social space and urban justice
This unit will bring the main themes of economic and cultural geography together. Particular attention is paid to four main themes in contemporary geography including issues of consumption, production, commodification, and urban spectacle.

Sem 2 2009

Environmental change: Past to future
This unit introduces a range of methods used to reconstruct past environments at different temporal scales over the past several hundred to thousands of years. These reconstructions provide baseline data to understand and infer the human contribution to several key environmental concerns, including climate change, biomass burning, biodiversity and vegetation dynamics, water availability and quality, and the management and restoration of natural, Indigenous and historical landscapes. Emphasis is placed on hands-on, technical experience to provide fundamental understanding of environmental issues of current relevance to Australia.

Sem 1 2009

Geographical information systems: For business and social science applications
This unit is designed for social and/or environmental science students who want to acquire mapping tools and skills so that, in deploying their science(s), they can make appropriate use of census and related data for socio/geodemographic mapping analysis and modelling. It is a complementary subject to GES3810/GES3820.

Sem 2 2009

Sharing prosperity: Geographies of work, regional development and economy
Central to our approach in this unit is a focus on social equity. We explore equity at a variety of scales: between nations, and within nations, regions, communities and households. How has 'the economy' and 'globalisation' been understood? Answering these questions enables us to develop our critical thinking about: the changing social relations of work, the corporation, regional development, trade and consumption. Sharing prosperity is a unit for students wanting to understand how social inequality is produced and who want to investigate forms of governance that could more effectively enable better distributive and non-distributive forms of social and economic justice.

Sem 1 2009

Geographical information systems for environmental management
This unit is designed for environmental science students who want to acquire mapping tools and skills so that, in deploying their science(s), they can make appropriate use of digital topographic data (e.g. in making digital elevation models) and digital satellite image data for environmental mapping and modelling. It is a complementary subject to GES3610 but uses the vector data model instead of the raster data model.

Sem 1 2009

Geographical information systems for environmental management
Flexible delivery model of GES3810 (as outlined above)

Sem 1 2009

Earth system interactions: From biogeochemical cycles to global change
The unit will examine the dynamics of the earth by identifying the major driving processes and responses of the biosphere to energy, water and biogeochemical cycles in the earth system and examine how these have changed on a global scale.

Next offered Sem 2 2010

International development in a globalising world
This unit provides students with the ability to critically examine geographical polarities of wealth, opportunity and risk for different groups of people in a globalising world. It focuses on differential resource allocation, demographic factors, agrarian systems and health outcomes. Answers to the following questions will be sought: 1) What are key disparities that pose serious concerns for a secure global community? 2) How have international development differences come about? 3) What competing explanations exist for global disparities? 4) What institutional and other structures exacerbate and reinforce uneven international development? 5) How might patterns of global inequality be transformed?

Next offered Sem 1 2010

Professional (3rd year) planning internship
A work placement program in which students produce unit assignments while engaging in a supervised placement with a planning agency. The work placement is aimed at consolidating and extending what they have learnt from core first year units and other units through experiential learning. The unit develops their understanding of the application of academically obtained knowledge and skills in a workplace environment, and facilitates their acquisition of work-based networks for potential employment opportunities. Students will undertake a structured professional development program negotiated with the agency and will participate in regular progress review sessions with their supervisors. (*Berwick campus only*)

Sem 2 2008

Seminar in geography

Sem 1 each year

Directed studies in geography

Year round

Honours thesis
Prospective honours students should first check their intended directed studies units with the Honours Coordinator. A wide range of units is available.

Year round

Perspectives on environment and sustainability
This unit develops students' capacity to critically evaluate differing ideological, philosophical, and disciplinary approaches to environment and sustainability, such as positivistic science, technology, systems theory, social ecology.

Sem 1 2009

Environmental analysis
This unit equips students with understanding of basic tools for environmental analysis and decision making for sustainability and skills in their application.

Sem 1 2009

Frontiers in sustainability and environment
Drawing on environmental expertise from inside and outside the university, this unit provides students with a fundamental technical understanding of a range of contemporary and emerging environmental issues such as loss of biodiversity, global warming, waste management...

Sem 2 2009

Environmental governance and citizenship
This unit explores the social and institutional frameworks for sustainability management, considering the relative merits of "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches.

Sem 2 2009

Law and environment
Structure of the Australian legal system, division of law; workings of the system; the courts and their work; environmental problems involving legislative control; town planning problems.

N/A 2009

Introduction to economics

Scarcity and social coordination in economic systems. The concepts of demand, costs, and supply. Markets and price determination and the concept of market power.

Sem 1 2009

Coastal environments
An account of the nature of Australian coastal landscapes, including not only environmental factors, but those that refer to socio-economic matters as reflected in the politics and techniques of management, regulation, conservation and investment.

Summer Semester 2008/09 Flexible Delivery

The conserver society
A social ecology perspective on the relations of humans with the biosphere that contribute to sustaining biodiversity. The unit is concerned with the challenge of re-establishing a humane society that lives within nature's bounds.

N/A 2009

Social and sacred ecology 1
Explores the dialectic of the social and the sacred and examines the synergy between them. It examines the ways different social and religious structures and practices are responding to the ecological crisis locally and globally.

N/A 2009

Wilderness studies in social and sacred ecology
This unit explores the relationships between the participants and the many habitats of a country place in Victoria. The experience of being in wilderness and in community for 10 days is used to bring the meaning of social and sacred ecology alive.

N/A 2009

Environmental psychology
The unit draws on the experience of the first peoples of the world, the hunter-gatherers, particularly in Australia and America. It examines how their experience with nature can reveal the possibility of a mutually enriching relationship between western socialised humans and Gaia.

N/A 2009

Environment and health
The interrelationships between environment and human physical and psychological well-being are explored, studying their role in the expression, causation and treatment of genetic, infectious and degenerative disease.

N/A 2009

Human evolution and environment
The evolution of humans in Africa from hominid precursors, to the genus Homo. The movement of humans out of Africa and subsequent world colonisation. Animal precursors to human behavioural traits. Archaeological evidence for the development of tool use and increasingly complex lifestyles.

N/A 2009

Corporate sustainability management
Corporate management for sustainable development is emerging as a core competency for business leaders. The ability to create value from, and mitigate risks associated with, sustainable development increasingly impacts markets, access to capital, company reputation and shareholder value.

Sem 1 2009

Sustainability measurement
Concepts and techniques relating to environmental performance measurement. Measures for assessing ecological sustainability and eco-efficiency. Information systems for integrating environmental management into corporate management accounting and reporting systems. 'Hidden' costs associated with poor environmental practice, waste and inefficiencies, especially alternative systems to enhance the transparency of corporate accounting practices.

Sem 2 2009

Directed project - Corporate environmental management
A project proposal and specific project outputs for a company-based corporate environmental management issue. Students are equipped with additional professional skills to improve their effectiveness in the workplace.

N/A 2009

Energy, environment infrastructure
From a rudimentary introduction to the scientific framework of energy and the thinking behind analyses of social (ie. all anthropogenic) phenomena for their social constructions.

N/A 2009

Cultural landscape, environment and sustainability in Italy
This field-based unit is taught on location in the National Park/World Heritage Area of Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera. Identified by UNESCO as an environment and cultural landscape worth preserving, the region is under immense pressure due to rural depopulation, abandonment of agricultural lands, landscape instability, and burgeoning tourism.

Summer Semester 2009/10

Field studies in regional sustainability
This unit explores the concepts of regional development and sustainability, and draws attention to the practical constraints and issues associated with translating such concepts into regional policy and practice. Field-study takes place in South Africa and includes focus on topics such as: effects of commercial agriculture on soil and water quality....

> Details

Summer Semester 2008/9

Resource evaluation & management
National and international conflicts over the use of natural resources, eg. rainforest destruction, land degradation, pressure on water supplies and common property resources such as the world's oceans. Socio-political-legal aspects of these disputes and differing attitudes to the environment of various interests groups. Market-based 'solutions' to environmental problems.

Sem 2 2009

Applied environmental climatology
Applied climatology addresses the role climate plays in the provision of food, shelter, energy and a healthy environment. The unit begins by acknowledging the role of traditional climate knowledge systems. Then a range of contemporary climate issues will be discussed along with approaches to addressing them.

Sem 2 2009

Social space and urban justice
This unit will bring the main themes of economic and cultural geography together. Particular attention is paid to four main themes in contemporary geography including issues of consumption, production, commodification, and urban spectacle.

Sem 2 2009

Global positioning systems (GPS): Applications in GIS
The transition from reference to diverse earth models and coordinate systems to the geocentric datum/earth model and digitally-assisted coordinate conversion on demand, rests on the rise of the digital computer and the global positioning industry with its constellation of satellites and "off the shelf" GPS receivers....

Sem 2 2009 Flexible Delivery

Geographical information systems (GIS) for social science applications
The legacy of non-digital cartography, general nature of spatial data and of digital spatial data and data bases and of thematic mapping, analogue to digital data conversion, the data quality problem (tests, error propagation), georeferencing and raster and vector approaches to data base structure...

Sem 2 2009

Processing and deployment of image data in GIS
After an introduction to the history and nature of image analysis, with emphasis on early forms (eg air photos) modern digital multi-spectral and hyperspectral data from both active and passive remote sensing systems are introduced. Thus the nature of information in the time series land-cover change archive can be assessed, appropriately analysed, and the value of the results documented.

N/A 2009

GIS applications: Project formulation and database assembly
This unit is designed to teach students to make the best of their knowledge about the sciences behind the themes of thematic mapping, on the one hand, and GIS on the other, so that, in discussion with a supervisor, an application of digital spatial data handling relevant to their interests can be identified.

N/A 2009

GIS applications: Data integration and analysis
GYM4660 gives students practice in integrating the data they have built into their spatial data bases so that spatial analysis designed to meet the requirements of the project they have formulated in GYM4650 can be undertaken successfully.

N/A 2009

Sharing prosperity: Geographies of work, regional development and economy.

Sem 1 2009

Geographical information systems (GIS) for environmental science
General nature of spatial data and of digital spatial data and of thematic mapping, analogue to digital data conversion, data quality, georeferencing, geocoding ground control points, raster and vector approaches, spatial analysis with geocoded data, boolean overlay...

Sem 1 2009

Community development in a globalising world
This unit introduces students to the leading approaches to community development in international and sustainable development.

Sem 1 2009

Sustainability and development
This unit introduces students to the issues, theory and practice of sustainable development and natural resources management. Topics covered include: Conceptualising Sustainable Development; Political Ecology of Property Regimes and Natural Resources; Field-Based Practice; and Sustainability and Institutional Practice.

N/A 2009

Urbanisation and regional development in the Indo-Pacific rims
This unit engages in a comparative analysis of the geographical and economic dimensions of spatial and social change in the countries and regions of the Indo-Pacific Ocean rims. Themes include: state policies of economic growth, urbanisation and industrialisation, regional disparities in industrial growth, gender dimensions of industrialisation, politics of ethnicity; environmental outcomes of industrialisation, and urban governance.

N/A 2009

Research in political ecology
This unit introduces student to principles and analytical methods of political ecology, and its application to analysing sustainable development and natural resources management.

Sem 1 2009

Governance and international development
Good governance is the basic building block for development and is the largest of the aid program's sectors. This unit introduces students to the key elements of planning, promoting and managing good governance in international aid and development programs and projects.

N/A 2009

Perspectives on environment and sustainability
This unit develops students' capacity to critically evaluate differing ideological, philosophical, and disciplinary approaches to environment and sustainability, such as positivistic science, technology, systems theory, social ecology...

Sem 1 2009

Environmental analysis
This unit equips students with understanding of basic tools for environmental analysis and decision making for sustainability and skills in their application.

Sem 1 2009

Frontiers in sustainability and environment
Drawing on environmental expertise from inside and outside the university, this unit provides students with a fundamental technical understanding of a range of contemporary and emerging environmental issues such as loss of biodiversity, global warming, waste management...

Sem 2 2009

Environmental governance and citizenship
This unit explores the social and institutional frameworks for sustainability management, considering the relative merits of "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches.

Sem 2 2009

Ecological systems and management
This unit provides a broad introduction to ecology for candidates with no prior ecological experience. It aims to integrate selected concepts in ecology, biology, biogeography and earth sciences that underpin present ecological thinking.

Sem 1 2009

Law and the environment
Structure of the Australian legal system, division of law; workings of the system; the courts and their work; environmental problems involving legislative control; town planning problems.

N/A 2009

Introduction to economics
Scarcity and social coordination in economic systems. The concepts of demand, costs, and supply. Markets and price determination and the concept of market power. Interactions between the economy and the environment. Costs of market exchange as a barrier to coordination of natural resource use by market signals and incentives.

Sem 1 2009

Environmental economics and policy
Application of microeconomic theory to environmental problems; the relationship between economy and the environment; sustainable development; national accounting and the environment. Limitations of market and government coordination of natural resourse use.

Sem 2 2009

Coastal environments
An account of the nature of Australian coastal landscapes, including not only environmental factors, but those that refer to socio-economic matters as reflected in the politics and techniques of management, regulation, conservation and investment.

Summer Semester 2008/09 Flexible Delivery

The conserver society
A social ecology perspective on the relations of humans with the biosphere that contribute to sustaining biodiversity. The unit is concerned with the challenge of re-establishing a humane society that lives within nature's bounds.

N/A 2009

Social and sacred ecology 1
Explores the dialectic of the social and the sacred and examines the synergy between them. It examines the ways different social and religious structures and practices are responding to the ecological crisis locally and globally.

N/A 2009

Wilderness studies in social and sacred ecology
This unit explores the relationships between the participants and the many habitats of a country place in Victoria. The experience of being in wilderness and in community for 10 days is used to bring the meaning of social and sacred ecology alive.

N/A 2009

Environmental psychology
The unit draws on the experience of the first peoples of the world, the hunter-gatherers, particularly in Australia and America. It examines how their experience with nature can reveal the possibility of a mutually enriching relationship between western socialised humans and Gaia.

N/A 2009

Environment and health
The interrelationships between environment and human physical and psychological well-being are explored, studying their role in the expression, causation and treatment of genetic, infectious and degenerative disease.

N/A 2009

Environmental internship
The internship offers students the opportunity to apply and consolidate the knowledge and professional skills they have acquired through their previous study. Under supervision of a member of Monash staff the student will undertake and report on practical and analytical work within the practical context of a business or other organisation outside Monash University (government department, or non-government organisation).

Sem 1 & 2 2009

Corporate sustainability management
Corporate management for sustainable development is emerging as a core competency for business leaders. The ability to create value from, and mitigate risks associated with, sustainable development increasingly impacts markets, access to capital, company reputation and shareholder value.

Sem 1 2009

Sustainability measurement
As for ENV441E

Sem 2 2009

Energy, environment infrastructure
From a rudimentary introduction to the scientific framework of energy and the thinking behind analyses of social (ie. all anthropogenic) phenomena for their social constructions.

N/A 2009

Minor internship project
Minor Project offers students the opportunity to apply and consolidate the knowledge and professional skills they have acquired through the M. CESM within the practical context of a business or other organisation. In the internship, research and analytical work of direct benefit to the host organisation will be carried out and reported on.

Sem 1 & 2 2009

Major internship project
Major Project offers students the opportunity to apply and consolidate the knowledge and professional skills they have acquired through the M. CESM within the practical context of a business or other organisation. In the internship, a major piece of research and analytical work of direct benefit to the host organisation will be carried out and reported on.

Sem 1 & 2 2009

Research project
Research Project enables students to consolidate the theoretical knowledge and analytical skills acquired in the coursework components in a research context. It requires independent learning and research by the student related to the core units offered in the first two semesters. It offers opportunity for students to pursue academically-oriented research.

Sem 1 & 2 2009

Major research project
This unit enables students to consolidate the theoretical knowledge and analytical skills acquired in the M.CESM in a research context. It requires independent learning and research by the student related to the core units offered in the first two semesters. It offers opportunity for students to pursue a major academically-oriented piece of research .

Sem 1 & 2 2009

Special topics in international development
Will spotlight particular topics that are important to understanding processes of national and regional development and environmental change within the context of globalisation. Different topical issues will be addressed in depth during semesters, based on curricula designed by guest lecturers in conjunction with M.IDEA and MPPM staff.

Sem 2 2009

Environmental revolutions
This unit explores the ways in which ideas about human-environment relations have revolutionised theories, practices and politics of international development and global environmental change. It explores the major historical and contemporary debates in the natural and social sciences concerning nature and human economy and the evolution of current thinking and approaches to environmental sustainability .

Sem 1 2009

The art and business of international development
This unit offers a practical, hands-on approach for learning a range of applied skills needed by professionals in international development organizations. It will introduce students to the working culture of institutions involved in international aid and development .

Sem 2 2009

Final project in M. Idea
This Unit offers students the opportunity to apply and consolidate the knowledge and professional skills they have acquired through the course within the practical context of an international development-related organisation. It requires independent learning and research by the student while fostering practical knowledge and skills related to the student's Area of Concentration.

Sem 1 & 2 2009