Undergraduate | LTU-AGR3WMT | 2024
Water Management
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed,
- No prior study
- Duration
- 12 weeks
Price from
$555
Upfront cost
$0
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About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Explain and apply legal, cultural, biological and ethical considerations that constrain water use and protect water resources.
- Effectively communicate scientific information in written and verbal formats to a variety of audiences.
- Critically evaluate issues arising for agribusiness managers in a resource constrained future using knowledge of water resource management in Australia.
- Water resources and hydrology
- Water management and markets
- Aquatic ecology
- Environmental water
- Social and cultural use of water
Water Management explores the role of water in the context of agribusiness decision-making. It draws on environmental and agribusiness industry expertise to explore key concepts underpinning water management in Australia, including fundamental hydrological, environmental and economic factors impacting sustainable management of water resources; the historic alignment of the development water resources and regional prosperity; and the current institutional and operational frameworks that influence water management decisions.
- Pre-field intensive multiple choice quizzes. Tests student understanding of three modules: (i) basic hydrology, (ii) water resource management, and (iii) water resource economics. (20%)
- Multiple choice quizzes conducted during field intensive. Tests student understanding of presentations during field intensive (20%)
- Oral presentation delivered in groups on a "hot topic" in water management. Conducted on penultimate day of the field trip. (20%)
- Essay style report on a "hot topic" (up to 1500 words). Due four weeks after field intensive trip. (40%)
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- 12
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Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following degrees
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