Course description

This course introduces students to Australia's climate, soils and water resources and to the ways that these three factors interact to dictate the natural ecosystem, and the productive uses to which land can be dedicated. The course focus is on the readily measurable and observable characteristics of the biophysical environment in order to provide students with skills that are applicable across a range of ecological and agricultural settings. The course will address the relative merits and costs associated with resource allocation, use and management in Australia, using water resource allocation (irrigation vs environmental flow) and land use (mining vs agriculture) as examples.

Archived offerings