Graduate Diploma - Master

The Graduate Diploma and Master of Environmental Management are offered internally by the School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the Hobart campus.

The programs attract people who are interested in environmental management, or who anticipate responsibility for environmental policy formation, or have a role in environmental education. The courses extend the professional expertise of people working in such fields as agriculture, community welfare, economics, education, engineering, forestry, law, medicine, planning, public health, political economy, science, and resource management.

Several basic assumptions underlie the University's program for these degrees.

• Those who frame the alternatives from which environmental policy choices will be made must necessarily make highly significant value judgements. Public understanding of administrative decision-making will be enhanced when people are willing to make explicit the values underlying policy formation. Accordingly, emphasis is placed on developing a student's sense of values.
• While the economic, social, cultural, legal and physical aspects of any major environmental policy problem can be distinguished analytically, these aspects need to be viewed together if policy-makers are to come up with workable solutions. Therefore, the programs stress the need for integrative modes of thought.
• The character of the solutions required from environmental policy-makers is changing rapidly. Categorical solutions are no longer appropriate; more and more people are recognising the interdependence of public problems. Thus, the solutions which policy makers provide must be integrative in an additional sense. In order for governments to make authoritative decisions, the aspirations of competing institutions must be brought into direct relationship with one another so that, through a process during which these aspirations are modified, solutions which have a wide degree of acceptance are produced. This acceptance must be achieved in stages during which the point of view of all participants gradually changes. In recognition of the importance of the integrative approach, the courses prepare students for

  policy making through programs which stress the multifaceted nature of environmental problems.

Graduate Diploma of Environmental Management

Location - Hobart

Fees - Commonwealth Supported

Intake - February and July

Duration -Minimum 1 yr (2 sem) maximum 3 yrs (6 sem)

Master of Environmental Management

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