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  • Level 5
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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Environmental and natural resource management is a rapidly expanding field in New Zealand. This is driven by the growing requirements of environmental legislation and public demand for enhanced environmental management practices. An essential knowledge area in this field is an understanding of ecology.

This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of ecological processes and the key characteristics of New Zealand’s terrestrial and aquatic environments. You will examine critical factors underpinning ecological sustainability, explore current issues in conservation and evaluate approaches to ecosystem management in New Zealand.

Topics covered include:

  • threatened species
  • New Zealand’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
  • impacts of human settlement; and
  • ecosystem management issues.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are needed for this course.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.

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