We live in a most exciting world and are faced with complex resource management issues central to Australia and the world's future such as water management, climate change, persistent poverty in the world, economic globalisation, environmental degradation, and social and political conflict. This field of study will introduce you to the need in industry for integrating natural resource science with economics and people/social issues in finding sustainable solutions to the complex problems facing our world.

There are many facets to integrated resource management, varying from natural systems to economic systems and people's interactions with all these. You don't have to make a decision on what sector of resource management you are most interested in at the time of enrolment (e.g. resource economics, environmental tourism, mining, tropical forestry, land and water, coastal environments, conservation, and others). This is only done from your second year of study, after you have been introduced and exposed to the many facets of this field during the first year and a half of study.

UQ prepares its students for a wide variety of rewarding careers in integrated resource management in Australia and overseas in areas such as: Natural Resource Economics; Environmental Tourism Development; Mining Rehabilitation; Regional Development; Overseas Consultancies; Revitalisation of Rural and Regional Communities; Water Management; Globalisation of Products and Services; Bio-security Management of Natural Resources; Indigenous Community Development; Social and Economic Impacts of Climate Change; Environmental management; Community Facilitators; Environmental Economists; Systems Research and application and Socio-Economic issues in Tropical Forestry.