Conservation is critical to our future. Environmental management knowledge and skills are in demand.
If world populations, communities and economies are to be sustainable into the future, more renewable resources must be used. Governments, businesses and individuals around the world are increasingly turning their attention to this issue, and developing ways to replace non renewable resources with 'renewables'.
Maintenance of the essential ecological processes is the world's life support system. This ranges from the global cycle of nitrogen, carbon-dioxide and water, to the localised regeneration of soil, the recycling of nutrients, and the cleansing of water and air.
Can you work for a cleaner future?
Learn how to:
- protect biological diversity
- manage and maintain habitats or ecosystems
- recognise environmental degradation
- use renewables sources for energy
- identify common pollutants and their sources
- manage vegetation, animal and marine environments
Jasmine Dungey, Conservation and Environmental Management student shared her thoughts about our approach to learning design...
"I am finding it interesting and educational - it covers the primary facts and then encourages you to learn the details through the assignments and contacting numerous organisations involved in environmental issues".
There are eight lessons in this course:
An Introduction To Ecology
- Spaceship Earth
- Conservation; Use of Resources, ecological value, economic value, genetic diversity
- Overkill
- Urbanisation
- Basic Ecology
- The Ecosystem
- Constituents for the Ecosystem
- Ecological Concepts
- The Web of Life; climate, producers, consumers, decomposers The Food Web
- Habitat and Niche
- Humans in the Environment
- Energy Flow
- Imbalances
- The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
- Climate Change
- El Nino
- International Efforts to Counter Climate Change; IPCC, UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Summit, Worldwatch
- Institute, etc
- Terminology
A Perspective On Environmental Problems
- History of Conservation
- Natural Resources; Renewable, Non Renewable
- Goals of Conservation
- History from Industrial Revolution to WWII
- WW2 and Post War Period
- International Conservation
- Deforestation
- Loss of Agricultural Land
- Loss of Biodiversity Endangered Water Supplies
- Exhaustion of Non Renewable Resources
- Political and Economic Issues of Conservation
- Environmental Damage in Free Economies
- Pollution in Planned Economies Supply of Resources
- Limits to Growth
Pollution and Industry Effects On The Environment
- Nature and Scope of Pollution
- Industrial Pollution
- Types of Pollutants
- Effects of Pollution
- Nuclear Pollution
- Sick Building Syndrome
- Asbestos Fibre
- Urbanisation
- Energy Alternatives
- Deforestation
- Nuclear Energy, Hydro Power, Solar Energy, Wind, Waste Power
Water and Soil
- Introduction
- Dams
- River Catchments
- Wetlands
- Water Pollution
- Recycling
- Desalination
- Water Environments
- The Hydrological Cycle; Infiltration, Rainfall, Evaporation, Effective Rainfall, etc
- Water and Plant Growth
- Keeping Water Clean
- Sewerage Treatment
- Soil; pH, texture, structure
- Land and Soil Degradation;
- Loss of soil fertility
- Erosion
- Salinity
- Soil compaction
- Soil acidification
- Build up of dangerous chemicals
Vegetation Conservation and Management
- Value of Trees
- Commercial Value of Trees
- Rainforests
- Forest Systems and Biomass
- Forest Conservation
- Trees and the Environment
- Environmental consequences of Deforestation
- Afforestation
- Classification of Forests
- Desertification
- Acid Rain
- Environmental Weeds
- Strategies for Preservation of Native Grasslands
Animal Conservation & Management
- The Human Animal
- Urbanisation
- Wildlife
- Threatened Species
- Invasive Species
- Wildlife Management; approaches, preservation, conservation, goals
- Wildlife Habitats
- Water Management for Wildlife
- Wildlife Surveys
Marine Conservation and Management
- Estuaries
- Fisheries; stock management, assessment, biomass, stock management methods
- Conservation of Sandy Shores
The Future
- Tourism and the Environment
- Ecotourism
- Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD)
- Framework for ESD
At the end of the course you will sit an exam to be awarded your Statement of Attainment in Conservation and Environmental Management.
This course is great for:
- professional development
- filling a knowledge gap from other study
- an introduction to the topic
- to meet formal workplace requirement
- industry skills development
- a specialist training program