Sustainability Down Under

6–22 July 2008
Australian National University, Canberra

Location: ANU Campus, Tumut forest area, Kioloa Field Station

Course Description

This course explores the key issues Australia must address to arrest the range of serious “environmental” problems the nation/continent faces. Non-sustainable patterns of resource use in both urban and rural settings are explored through an innovative combination of fieldwork, classroom lectures and discussions and group based peer learning. The fact that “environmental” problems are in fact problems in managing human behaviour will be highlighted. The course will start with a week’s field trip in the high-country forests west of Canberra where issues related to the management of both natural and plantation forests will be examined. The course will then spend a week based in Canberra exploring the ‘footprint’ of Australia’s national capital. The last four days of the course will be spent at Kioloa, the coastal campus of the ANU. This will allow students to explore sustainability issues in a region of spectacular coastal forests and beaches.

Course tuition fee: AUD 2800
Field-study costs: Approx. AUD 650
Accommodation: AUD 600–1200 (For on-campus component)

Website: info.anu.edu.au/ovc/Executive/020PP_Strategies,_Initiatives_and_Alliances/IARU/ANUgsp.asp

Further enquiries: Mr Tim Mansfield, E-mail iaru.gsp@anu.edu.au