Postgraduate Environmental Management courses in Australia

Australia is the perfect place to study a postgraduate courses in environmental management. There is significant evidence within Australia of land and stream degradation associated with broadacre and intensive agriculture, mining and a range of less than optimal land management practices. Both agricultural production and off-park ecosystems are being threatened by processes such as salination, rising water tables, etc. caused by overclearing of woodlands.

Significant national, state and regional resources are being directed towards initiatives to restore and repair degraded landscapes and address environmental management issues including degradation problems and the economic losses associated with degradation.

Postgraduate environmental management courses seek to develop an integrated approach to theory and practice, with an emphasis on landscape/land system rehabilitation and restoration as well as localised site disturbances. Alternative subject choices enable students to specialise in practical aspects of conservation or management skills.

Environmental management is the planning and implementation of actions geared to improve the quality of the human environment. The postgraduate programmes in environmental management are multidisciplinary courses designed to enhance the skills and technical expertise of graduates working in all facets of the environmental arena. They aim to produce managers able to address the many issues in the highly complex and changing area of environmental management.

Career opportunities exist in managerial and policy positions in government, consulting firms and research, and in the private sector as environmental management system managers, auditors and policy analysts.

So if you want to spend your time studying mainly outdoors, then head down under.

By Beth Crewe