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Conserving Nature in Landscapes
Undergraduate | TAS-KGA332 | 2023
Course information for 2023 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Conserving Nature in Landscapes
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Evaluate conservation actions and their trade-offs with multiple use objectives for managing landscapes to achieve biodiversity outcomes
- Analyse the basis for conservation action, the policy frameworks within which these actions occur, and stakeholder/community support for these actions
- Argue for funding conservation actions in place, with the community, in accordance with regulatory frameworks
- Week 1 - Intro to landscape conservation
- Week 2 - Ecological and social contexts
- Week 3 - Connectivity and fragmentation
- Week 4 - Processes and function
- Week 5 - Restoration
- Week 6 - Governance and policy
- Week 7 - Production landscapes
- Week 8 - Private land conservation
- Week 9 - Funding conservation
- Week 10 - Stakeholders and community
- Week 11 - Traditional ecological knowledge
- Week 12 - Conservation and roads
- Week 13 - Future of conservation
The conservation of nature needs to occur at the landscape scale as well as within protected areas. Landscapes can be wilderness areas, rural areas with highly varied land use or urban areas. Whatever their type - there are landscape processes, both natural and cultural, that need to be managed to ensure conservation. A large number of organisations, such as Natural Resource Management Boards, have conservation at a landscape scale as a major mission. You will learn about the roles of connectivity and fragmentation in influencing biotic patterns, landscape and political processes relevant to the conservation of rare or threatened, species, communities and landforms, and the ways in which landscapes can be planned and managed to benefit the conservation of nature. If you are interested in working with people to conserve nature at a broad scale, you will enhance your knowledge by undertaking this subject.
- Individual Grant Application (20%)
- Test or Quiz (30%)
- Grant Group Presentation (15%)
- Landscape Conservation Report (35%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
one of
- TAS-KGA204-Earth, Climate and Life
- TAS-KGA205-Geographies of Economy, Politics and Culture
- TAS-KGA223-Environmental Management
TAS-KGA213-Natural Environment Field Techniques (no longer available)
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Equivalent subjects
You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.
TAS-KGA508 (Not currently available)
TAS-KGA516-Ecosystem Conservation (no longer available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Undergraduate
TAS-SUS-DEGUndergraduate
TAS-SCG-DEGUndergraduate
TAS-BBS-DEGUndergraduate
TAS-PSS-DEGUndergraduate
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