Environmental Science

Objectives

The general objective of these courses is:

• to provide training for existing and future professionals in the background, principles and practices of tropical environmental management, particularly in the context of wet-dry and semi-arid tropical ecosystems.

Specific objectives include the following:

• to provide a program which is flexible and is balanced between course work, hands-on training and research, and thus caters to the needs of individual students

• to provide stand-alone units within the program which deliver up-to-date training and education for professionals in industry and Government departments

• to offer a program that responds to the changing needs of employers and other state holders in northern Australia and South-East Asia, and which is sufficiently flexible to cater to a broad range of demands

• to offer an external program that will be available to land managers, wherever they live in the savanna ecosystem