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Level 6
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20 Credits
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0.1667 EFTS
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Course duration: 16 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
Effective environmental decision making depends on credible and timely information about the state of the environment. Comprehensive monitoring and reporting systems are therefore essential to environmental management. This course is designed to give you an understanding of the role of monitoring and reporting in environmental management.
You will explore the contribution of monitoring and reporting to New Zealand’s environmental management framework. You will also use your skills to analyse environmental data and assess current monitoring and reporting practice.
Topics covered include:
- the role of environmental monitoring and reporting
- methods and techniques for environmental monitoring
- designing and undertaking an environmental monitoring programme
- analysis and interpretation of environmental data
- evaluation of current environmental monitoring and reporting practice in New Zealand.
Entry requirements
You need to have successfully completed study at Level 5.
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.