Course overview
This course will show the value and critical importance of natural resource management while increasing students' awareness of the current issues and their complex inter-relationships. It will further provide students with enhanced problem-solving skills to tackle complex natural resource management issues.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate a deep knowledge of the complexity and inter-linked nature of abiotic and biotic components and processes in the Earth System
- Clearly and effectively communicate ideas for solving complex natural resource management problems to different groups
- Evaluate the impact of anthropogenic activities on natural resources and ecosystem processes and services
- Develop and implement sound management strategies that consider the ecological, economic, and social complexity of national and international natural resource management problems
- Access diverse information sources, synthesise material, present relevant information, and use information appropriately to achieve specific natural resource management aims
- Critically evaluate the ecological, economic, and social complexity of national and international natural resource management problems