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Offered By:	ANU College of Pysical Sciences and ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment
Academic Contact:	Professor Steve Dovers and Dr Richard Baker
Areas of Interest:	Policy Studies and Resource Management and Environmental Science

Policy expertise is scarce in the rapidly expanding areas of natural resource management, urban environmental management, and sustainable development. There are significant career opportunities in all three levels of Australian government, as well as in the expanding regional organisations, and in the private sector. In particular, graduates with substantial policy skills matched with a sound background in areas such as water science, landscape ecology and similar areas are highly sought after, in Australia and internationally. This major offers foundational knowledge in public policy, placed firmly within the context of some of the big challenges in areas such as climate impacts and adaptation, landscape management and water resource management, including research-intensive courses and methods training.  Details of environmental policy positions that many former ANU students are now working in are at http://fennerschool-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/resources/formernow.html

Requirements

A minimum of 42 units listed in (a), (b) and (c) and requiring

(a) no more than 12 units from the following:

• ENVS1001 Resources, Environment and Society
• ENVS1008 Contemporary Issues in Asia and Australia
• POLS1002 Introduction to Politics

(b) at least 12 units of the following:

• ENVS2007 Economics for the Environment
• ENVS2010 Australia's Forests
• ENVS2013 Environment and Development
• ENVS2014 Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability
• ENVS2017 Vietnam Field School
• LAWS3103 Law and the Environment

(c) at least 18 units from:

• ENVS3007 Participatory Resource Management
• ENVS3010 Independent Research Project
• ENVS3018 Policy and Institutional Analysis in Environment and Sustainability
• ENVS3020 Climate Change Science and Policy
• ENVS3028 Environmental Policy and Planning
• ENVS3033 International Environmental Policy
• ENVS3036 Integrative Research Methods
• ENVS3001 Climate Change Science & Policy Field School
• ENVS4006 Forest Policies and Practices

It is also possible to complete a double major in Environmental Policy by completing 10 of the above listed courses, including no more than 2 of the courses listed under (a) and at least 6 listed under (c).