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Resilient Regions: Sustainability in Practice
Undergraduate | MUR-SUS301 | 2019
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Gain a regional perspective on how environmental sustainability works in the field. Step into the arena of eco-entrepreneurism. Line up traditional approaches to agriculture against permaculture and other organic and biodynamic alternatives.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Resilient Regions: Sustainability in Practice
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject you should be able to:
- critically apply core concepts in resilience theory to overall sustainability evaluation of a bioregional location
- appreciate the role of Indigenous culture in the historical shaping of the bioregion
- apply complexity principles to the understanding of the key relationships between the human and ecological elements within a bioregion
- compare and contrast orthodox views of economic progress, technology and design to those of alternative commsubjecties
- compare and contrast conventional agriculture to permaculture, organic and biodynamic alternatives
- appreciate the political and policy aspects of regional economic development.
- Complex adaptive systems and resilience; Bioregionalism and decentralization; Sense of place
- Ecological and agricultural resilience: Ecosystem health and restoration; Transforming agriculture: Catchment management; Permaculture
- Social and Cultural Resilience: Indigenous history and culture; Participatory politics; Alternative communities
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Transforming agriculture: Sustainable agriculture; Eco-preneurship; Eco-technologies
- Creating resilient communities
This capstone subject showcases sustainability in practice at a regional scale. The subject is immersive, interactive and practical. For internal students the subject includes a week-long residency in Denmark WA in early December. During the residency, field trips and case studies will cover: resilience; bioregionalism; sense of place; sustainable technologies; eco-entrepreneurism; and sustainable agriculture. There are extra costs for this subject to cover accommodation and food. External students will be expected to visit similar case studies in their own region.
- Multimedia Presentation (30%)
- Final Report (40%)
- Reflective Journal (30%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Enrolment in one of the majors:Sustainable Dev; Commsubjecty Dev; International Aid & Dev. Students must have completed 18 credit points (6 OUA subjects) at Level 1 before enrolling in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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